Virgin Atlantic has pushed back the retirement date for its Airbus A340-600 fleet after an engine failure suffered by a Norwegian Boeing 787-8 temporarily affected the availability of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powerplants. The UK operator was due to phase out its A340 fleet at the end of October, but "we're keeping them for about two months longer", the carrier's executive vice-president of operations Philip Maher told FlightGlobal on 18 September.
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