Hurricanes set Virgin Atlantic back after recent improvements

The disruption to flights from recent hurricanes has set back a recovery at airline Virgin Atlantic, its CE Craig Kreeger said Thursday. The airline warned in March it expected to fall into a loss this year after 3 years of profits, but last month Kreeger said demand for summer travel by Britons had held up better than expected, despite a weaker pound. Some of that improvement, however, has been eroded since Hurricane Irma ripped through resorts in the Caribbean and hit the east coast of the US, with other storms, such as Hurricane Maria, causing further disruption. "Hurricanes, beside from the very personal and real devastation in many places we fly, have certainly had an impact on our business, which will make the end of the year a little weaker than we'd (recently) anticipated," Kreeger said. <br/>