{"id":245194,"date":"2004-03-25T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/virgin-atlantic-expands-with-new-routes"},"modified":"2004-03-25T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T17:53:25","slug":"virgin-atlantic-expands-with-new-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/virgin-atlantic-expands-with-new-routes","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic Expands With New Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson, head of the British-based airline, said that the new routes will include services to Havana, Cuba, and Nassau in the Bahamas starting in July 2005.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The company has ordered two Airbus A340-600 aircraft to cope with the planned increased flights to destinations including the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Tobago and the U.S. cities of Las Vegas and Orlando.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;Following the last recession Virgin Atlantic had annual double digit growth from 1993-2000 and we aim to match this level in the next few years,&#8221; Branson said.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;There are encouraging signs that the market, particularly the all-important business travel sector, is returning to health,&#8221; he added.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Branson said that recruitment for the new jobs, including 770 cockpit and cabin crew, will begin immediately.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Virgin Atlantic currently has about 5,000 employees, the company said.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>The Associated Press<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic said Wednesday it is opening new routes and increasing frequencies on existing destinations as part of an expansion that will add 1,400 new jobs at the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}