‘Throw Thursday 9th July 2026.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The plane is mostly red, with large, white "Virgin Express" on the forward fuselage, above and below the forward passenger cabin windows. The white registration "OO-VED" is on the side of the rear fuselage, just aft of the rear door, with a small, black, yellow, and red Belgian flag and the white text "Boeing 737-400" just in front of the door. The tail is white, with red, seemingly hand-written "Virgin" titles in the middle. A couple of grey taxiways meet in the bottom right corner, separated on the left by a strip of grass. More grass in the background separates this taxiway from a black runway, with more grass beyond that separating another grey taxiway. A similar type of plane with a blue, dark blue, and white livery is taxiing from right to left in the top right corner.

OO-VED, Boeing 737-46M, Virgin Express, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990’s.

This was operated by Euro-Belgian Airlines, and was just one of several attempts to feed Virgin Atlantic’s long-range routes at Heathrow from around Europe, none of which lasted very long or were very successful.

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