Over the last 2 years Virgin Australia has been retiring their fleet of Embraer E190's one by one. Today Virgin Australia's last ERJ190 landed in Brisbane for the final time after arriving from Newcastle. ZPH departed Brisbane this morning for Newcastle (NSW) at 9.45am local time as VA 1102. The aircraft then did the return flight as VA 1105 arriving in Brisbane from Newcastle landing on runway 30 at 12.48pm local time.
In June 2016 Virgin announced it would be replacing their 18 Embraer E190 fleet within two years and replacing them all with new modern Boeing 737-800's.
Over the years we have seen the ERJ's in a few different liveries, they started out in the Virgin Blue red livery
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| VIRGIN BLUE ERJ190 VH-ZPH (CN 19000199) |
They were even in the Pacific Blue livery
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| PACIFIC BLUE ERJ190 VH-ZPM (CN 19000262) |
In May 2011 a new era was born for Virgin Blue by the way of a new name to Virgin Australia and a new colour scheme was also released.
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| VIRGIN AUSTRLIA ERJ190 VH-ZPM (CN 19000262) |
The ERJ190 was even seen sporting a AFL livery
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| VIRGIN AUSTRALIA ERJ190 VH-ZPQ (CN 19000412) |
Not only did Virgin Blue / Virgin Australia have E190's they also had E170's for a while there too.
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VIRGIN BLUE ERJ170 VH-ZHC (CN 17000191)
But it is rumoured the Embraer wont be going overseas to retire like the rest of the fleet, it will remain here in Australia. A local airline called JETGO has picked it up and will be using it for it's inaugural international flight in a few months time. The aircraft is rumoured to be used on the Brisbane - Karratha - Singapore return sector..
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