VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS is to launch services to both Dubai and Montego Bay (Jamaica) next year, together with extra flights to Mumbai. This will bring the airline”s total number of destinations to 28. Services between Heathrow and Mumbai will increase from three a week to daily from December 2005. The Heathrow ” Dubai operation begins in April 2006 and will be flown with Airbus A340-600 aircraft. The services between Gatwick and Jamaica will be twice weekly on a Boeing 747-400 aircraft from July 2006. The airline has also published its results for the 12 months ending 28 February 2005 which show a pre-tax profit of ”68m on a turnover of ”1.630bn. This is the highest profit figure since 1999. Last year”s results showed a plus of ”20.9m on a turnover of ”1.272bn for the ten months ended 29 February 2004. During the financial year Virgin Atlantic flew 4.4m passengers, up 30% from 3.4m from the previous reporting period.
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