Virgin Atlantic joins SkyTeam airline alliance

Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will join global airline alliance SkyTeam, becoming its sole UK member. The Crawley-based operator expects to complete the process in “early 2023” and is the first new airline to join the group since Garuda Indonesia in 2014 (ITA Airways was admitted last October as a replacement to Alitalia). Shai Weiss, Virgin Atlantic’s CEO announced the move at a press conference in London today (September 27) in the company of SkyTeam CEO Kristin Colvile and