Virgin Atlantic to unveil A350-1000 and business class new seat product in Apr-2019

21 March, 2019

Virgin Atlantic plans to unveil its first A350-1000 featuring the 'Upper Class' seat product on 08-Apr-2019 (onemileatatime.com/businesstraveller.com, 19/20-Mar-2019). The carrier's new seat product has a reported configuration of 44 seats in a 1-2-1 layout. Virgin Atlantic SVP of sales and customer loyalty Oliver Byers stated: "The A350-1000 is a great opportunity for us to introduce a new Upper Class seat and product, and we're very excited to reveal what that will be before we start flying it next year". According to the CAPA Fleet Database, Virgin Atlantic has eight A350-1000s on order to be purchased and four A350-1000s on order from Air Lease Corporation.