Economy Class & Beyond

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club 30% uplift on Tesco ClubCard Transfers!

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If you collect Virgin Flying Club miles, you shop at Tesco in the UK... and you have a stack of Clubcard vouchers available - there's a tasty bonus, in the form of a 30% uplift on vouchers converted. Normally £2.50 of Tesco vouchers gives you 625 Virgin Flying Club Miles. During the uplift period, this will be 813 miles. Also, if you set up the auto-transfer too, you … [Read more...]

Virgin Atlantic to trim Little Red Services between Manchester and London

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Things may not be all well with Virgin Atlantic's Little Red service, with a service cut occurring next year - with the Manchester to London Heathrow route dropping from four flights a day to three flights a day. The lunch-time service is being trimmed, with morning and evening services remaining. London Heathrow to Manchester VS3041 DEPART LHR 09:30 ARRIVE MAN … [Read more...]

Virgin Atlantic and Delta harmonise LHR-JFK timetable

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Virgin Atlantic and Delta have finesses their new combined Joint-Venture timetable, with spaced out outbound from London to New York Route, whilst there is a full evening shuttle between with 30 minute - 60 minute frequncy in the evening. London Heathrow - New York JFK VS003 DEPART LHR 09:05 ARRIVE JFK 11:50 Airbus A340-600 DL001 DEPART LHR 10:15 ARRIVE JFK 13:15 Boeing … [Read more...]

Delta and Virgin Atlantic combine LHR-JFK timetable

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Yesterday, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic were granted anti-trust immunity, allowing their Trans-Atlantic joint venture to commence. Their first announcement once confirmed was to harmonies the Delta and Virgin Atlantic London Heathrow to New York-JFK timetable, with the following coming into effect from 30th March 2014 London Heathrow - New York JFK DEPART … [Read more...]

Delta and Virgin Atlantic confirm codeshares

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Delta and Virgin Atlantic have announced they are to code-share 108 routes, allowing passengers to connect between 66 destinations between the United Kingdom and North America. Virgin Atlantic will place its code on 91 Delta routes to include both Trans-Atlantic and US domestic routes. Meanwhile, Delta will reciprocate by placing its code on 17 Virgin Atlantic routes, … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400

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It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, it's a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 celebrity special "Lady Penelope" - G-VFAB - with a big Scarlet Lady painted on the side of fuselage, beginning her take off run at London Heathrow Airport. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-300X

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It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art. This week, it's a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-300X parked on the far Heathrow T5 pads The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next week! … [Read more...]

Virgin Atlantic to introduce gate to gate IFE

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Virgin Atlantic is to join the number of airlines who have gate to gate In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) onboard. Currently, the IFE is switched on 25 minutes into flight, and switched off about 40 minutes before the end of a flight (as well as the safety demo). On certain services, this will become a Gate-To-Gate service after the In-Flight Safety Video/Safety Briefing is … [Read more...]

1st April news: Virgin to launch Glass bottomed plane

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Well it wouldn't be the 1st April without some silliness, and today is no different. Apart from Google Treasure Maps, today Virgin Atlantic launches a Glass Bottom Plane. Virgin say: Today we've announced that our world-class engineering crew have been secretly working on the design and production of the world's first-ever glass-bottomed plane, created to ensure passengers … [Read more...]