Ua makemake paha ka mokulele mokulele o Kaleponi ʻo Virgin America Inc. i ke kūʻai ʻana i nā ʻauwaʻa Airbus o Frontier Airlines inā lanakila ʻo Southwest Airlines i kāna koho no ka mea lawe lawe Denver, e like me ka nūhou i ka Pōʻalua.
Ua haʻi aku ʻo CEO ʻo Virgin America ʻo David Cush i ka Bloomberg News ma kahi hālāwai ninaninau e makemake paha kāna mokulele, e lele ana i nā mokulele Airbus, i nā mokulele Airbus 40 nona ka Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc.
Ua ʻōlelo nā luna o ke komohana hema inā kūleʻa kā lākou $ 170 miliona no Frontier, e hoʻopau lākou i nā ʻauwaʻa Airbus Frontier. Hoolele ke komohana hema i na mokulele Boeing.
Ua ʻike ʻo Bloomberg ʻo ka hapa nui o nā mokulele Frontier he ʻelima mau makahiki a ʻoi aku paha, a ʻo nā mea uila a me nā ʻenekini e kūpono i nā lako o Virgin America.
"He mau mokulele kahiko kēia, a ma lalo o ka waiwai kūpono, makemake mākou," wahi a Cush iā Bloomberg. "I ka lawe ʻana i nā mokulele i hoʻohana ʻia, e nānā ʻoe i ka maʻamau. Loaʻa iā lākou nā avionics a me nā mīkini like. Makemake mākou e nānā i kēlā.
ʻO ka hōʻike Bloomberg i ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo Burlingame, ʻo Virgin America i hoʻokumu ʻia ma Kaleponi i hoʻokumu i ka lawelawe i ka Pōʻalua mai Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a ke nānā nei i ka hoʻohui ʻana i nā ala hou i Atlanta, Dallas a me Austin, Texas, ma waena o nā kūlanakauhale ʻē aʻe.
ʻO Virgin America kahi mokulele US wale nō, kaʻawale mai United Kingdom ʻo Virgin Atlantic Airways, ʻoiai hoʻohana lākou i nā hōʻailona hōʻailona like.
Hāʻawi ʻo Southwest a me Frontier i nā mea kūʻai aku ma waena o New Mexico mai ka Albuquerque International Sunport.
