{"id":1383,"date":"2017-12-12T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:02:17","slug":"virgin-atlantic-launches-direct-flight-from-london-heathrow-to-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/virgin-atlantic-launches-direct-flight-from-london-heathrow-to-barbados\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic launches direct flight from London Heathrow to Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec\/12\/2017 &#8211; Virgin Atlantic has launched its direct flight from\u00a0London Heathrow to Barbados bringing happy travelers from the UK cold to the warm shores of our Caribbean island.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1385\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/heathrow-barbdos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/heathrow-barbdos.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/heathrow-barbdos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/heathrow-barbdos-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo credit &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marc_yboo\/status\/940527935605309440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/marc_yboo\/status\/940527935605309440<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new flight operates on\u00a0<strong>Tuesdays<\/strong> and <strong>Saturdays<\/strong> and complements the existing Virgin Atlantic flights from\u00a0Gatwick and Manchester.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_540\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/virgin-atlantic.jpg\" alt=\"Virgin Atlantic flying into Barbados\" width=\"450\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/virgin-atlantic.jpg 450w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/virgin-atlantic-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virgin Atlantic flying into Barbados&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Through Virgin&#8217;s partnership with FlyBe Scottish travelers can also easily connect from Edinburgh and Aberdeen to Barbados via the new London Heathrow flight.<\/p>\n<p>Book your winter escape at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginatlantic.com\/gb\/en\/destinations\/caribbean\/barbados.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VirginAtlantic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_595\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/turtle-beach-barbados.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle Beach, Barbados\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/turtle-beach-barbados.jpg 475w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/turtle-beach-barbados-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle Beach, Barbados<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic has launched its direct flight from\u00a0London Heathrow to Barbados bringing happy travelers from the UK cold to the warm shores of our Caribbean island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,75],"tags":[83,136],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}