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The company founded by Richard Branson is an entirely different case to other European airlines, because it just makes long-haul flights.

Although the company has made several times European flights has been discussed in the background of specific transactions that have not lasted more than a few months.

Branson, known for his extrencidades, entered the airline business as one of their investments, but in the end has become a Virgin Atlantic one of the strengths of his business empire and does not hesitate to move to where needed to promote new routes or "fight" against the leaders of other airlines, such as when he confronted the president of Qantas, Geoff Dixon, after he tell that Virgin would never get permission to fly from the UK to that country.

Branson said that if not managed by a certain date, it would in a Qantas jet, dressed in flight attendant serving passengers on Qantas, but that if they managed permissions, expecting him to do the same. As the day of the inaugural flight of Virgin London-Hong Kong-Sydney, Dixon did not appear, Branson showed a picture of him, at full scale, dressed in a suit Virgin Atlantic stewardess.

As this formed the fleet of the airline Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic has built its operation on four-engined aircraft: B-747-100 and -200 first, and B-747-400 and A340 Today (after a brief trial period of a B-767 leased).

In fact, one of the main points highlighting the airline is its use of four-engine planes, twin engine face competition on many routes.

Today its fleet is spread at a rate of almost two for every Boeing Airbus, although in the near future will mainly formed by Airbus even more since its current order book is only with the European manufacturer: 11 A340 and 6 A380-600, which would mean nearly 3 to 1 in favor of Airbus. Virgin

maintains a supply of three classes in their planes, an executive, a premium tourist and tourists, while among the most innovative airlines in the market.

A board aircraft today can receive email (and not just in charge of embedded devices in the seats of the noble classes), and these are even equipped with seats that convert into double beds will occupants Unlike other airlines, where two adjacent seats remain two separate but adjoining beds. Moreover, its executive class seats are the first that have been certified in the world so that the backrest can be made back in the takeoff and landing.

For the A380 has already announced it wants to offer a new level of service on board. For many years, even before the A380 to be launched, which Branson announced that he wanted to install hot tubs in their aircraft, which has caused more than a headache for engineers to interior as a shower is easy to install and operate on board, and it basically aims to achieve a cubicle closed the water can not escape, while the jacuzzi, is rather more complicated.

precisely how to install in one of the new services that Virgin wants to implement as well as the design, manufacture and certification of new seats, was the main reason that Virgin has decided to delay the entry almost a year in service of its A380.