Virgin Atlantic Airways was founded in 1984 by Virgin Grup in United Kingdom. Virgin Atlantic Airways’s headquarters are currently located in Crawley and the main base in Gatwick Airport. Virgin Atlantic Airways is not a star alliance member. The company has 4 stars on Skytrax rating. Craig Kreeger leads the company as the CEO.

It has declared  £ 2,700,000,000 in revenue. Virgin Atlantic Airways offers service in 33 countries and they have carried more than 5.4 million passengers in 2016. Sydney-Melbourne,Melbourne-Canberra,Sydney-Denpasar,Melbourne-Denpasar,Denpasar-Sydney are some of the main flight destinations.

Virgin Atlantic Airways’s fleet consists of Boeing 787 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 8.9 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 787 at 2.5 years old. They rank 23 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Boeing 787 with 17 of them at hand. They rank 23 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft.