Virgin Atlantic New York Airbus A350 Flights To Begin In September

This past Friday, we saw Virgin Atlantic open up reservations for its Airbus A350-1000XWB service from London Heathrow to New York JFK. According to RoutesOnline, the service will commence on September 10th. From there, the A350 will operate six weekly flights. At first the flights will have the numbers VS153 outbound and VS138 on the return. However, this will change to VS137 outbound and VS138 return as of September 25th. RoutesOnline is also reporting that additional A350-operating service will be filed in the coming weeks.