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Virgin rejigs Boeing 737 MAX order, delays delivery to 2023 – Executive Traveller
Virgin ditches the smaller MAX 8 but says the MAX 10 is the right size for both domestic and short-range overseas flights.
Virgin Australia will go ahead with adding the troubled Boeing 737 MAX to its fleet, but has slashed its order for Boeing’s next-gen jet by almost half and pushed back the first delivery by another two years.
The smaller Boeing 737 MAX 8, for which Virgin held 23 orders with deliveries from early 2025, has been scrubbed from the list.
However, Virgin will go ahead with its order for 25 of the larger and more flexible Boeing 737 MAX 10, which was unveiled only in late 2019 although its original July…
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