Virgin Australia says it will dispose of its entire fleet of six EMB-170s - currently on sub-lease to Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) - before the end of the 2016 financial year as it pushes to realize further cost-savings.
As part of the drive, five of the carrier's eighteen EMB-190s will also be sold off come September of this year.
Lost capacity will be made up through increased use of its B737 fleet, Virgin Australia Group Chief Executive Officer John Borghetti said.
Once completed, Virgin Australia's mainline fleet will consist of six A330-200s, fourteen ATR72-500/600s, two B737-700s, fifty-eight B737-800s, and thirteen EMB-190s.
As previously reported, the carrier's Virgin Australia Regional (XR, Perth Int'l) unit is also planning to retire its entire fleet of eight Fokker 50s.
Virgin Australia has also announced a strategic partnership with Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane Int'l) saying that the two carriers would cooperate in the fly-in/fly-out charter market for natural resource companies operating in Australia. All existing contracts already in place will stay with the current operators, but Alliance and Virgin Australia Regional will assist each other with preferential agreements related to aircraft procurement, spare parts pooling, maintenance and ground handling.
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