Things in the Sky

Yesterday, I mentioned that I was surprised that Virgin Atlantic hadn’t responded to the looming British Airways strike (there are some talks going on today), but a few hours after I wrote that the airline announced that during the strike period, some flights that are usually operated with A340-300s will be operated with A340-600s instead, providing an additional 68 seats. A full list of cities getting the extra capacity wasn’t provided in the press release, but Newark, Boston, Washington, and Delhi will be four of them.

Virgin said that the additional seats “will go on sale over the next 24 hours.” That was sent out late in the afternoon yesterday, so everything should be loaded in a few hours from now.