Virgin Atlantic Airways has always faced tough competition from British Airways since its inception in 1982. Virgin Atlantic Airways was originally founded by Randolph Fields and Alan Hillary and it was then called British Atlantic Airways. In December 1999 Singapore Airlines purchased 49% of Virgin Atlantic and since then the airline is jointly held by Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). Virgin Atlantic Airways is primarily an airline having its base at London Heathrow and London Gatwick in Great Britain. The destinations of Virgin Atlantic include U.K, U.S.A, Australia, Caribbean, China, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Nigeria, and South Africa. The company has received the Type A Operating License from United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority that permits the airline carry passengers, cargo, and mail in aircraft having 20 or more seats. Cheapflightsforgoa.com offers information about flights to India by the airline.
Virgin Atlantic Airways operates in only two cities of India namely New Delhi and Mumbai. It is however planning to provide direct flights to Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Thus Virgin Atlantic Airways has no direct flight to Goa. If one wants to visit Goa from London then one will have to take a flight to either to New Delhi or Mumbai and from there one will have to take connecting flight to Goa. The Dublim Airport of Goa is mainly a domestic airport. Very few international flights operate in Goa. But all airlines are connected to more than one city in India and Goa is connected with almost all cities of India. Thus Goa is well connected to the world even though it is not directly connected to a few world cities.
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Virgin Atlantic Airways inaugurated new standards of service by providing individual televisions to their business class passengers. The airlines owns one of the newest fleets of the world. It operates with Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 aircrafts. Virgin Atlantic will be supplied with six more A380 aircrafts by 2008. At present the airlines operates in 25 destinations throughout the world.
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