If you look up to the skies in Canberra on Monday, you might be able to spot something that's never been there before. Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's a plane! An Embraer E190-E2, to be exact.

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This brand new E-Jet (as it's colloquially known) is joining the Virgin Australia fleet and its inaugural Australian flight is scheduled from Canberra to Perth at 11 o'clock Monday morning on its way to its new base in the west. It'll mainly be doing FIFO flights and regional WA routes, but with three more of these E-Jets due to arrive by early 2026 and a four on order, Virgin Australia could start using them around the country at some point, lik

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