Virgin Atlantic trip report 9 to 16 March 2006
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:27 pm
Flew economy with Virgin. In general were decent flights.
Outbound, you can check in online 24 hours before the flight. Do it!! Means you avoid the queues at Gatwick (basically you just go to the fast bag drop). You get to avoid the really long lines at Gatwick. Also means you can get to Gatwick just 1.30 hours before the flight.
Virgin use a 747-400 for their flight to Tobago (which carries onto Grenada). Its one of he older 747's in Virgin's fleet. This means the IFE is one of the older ones. Basically you get a choice of about 12 movies. The selection on the way out was pretty good. However many people were having problems with the headset sockets resulting in the FA's having to use duct tape. The food was fine. However I found the FA service a bit rushed and impersonal. Also it was a pretty fully flight.
On the way back checked into Tobago about 2 hours before the flight. That was fine. Went across the road and had a few drinks with Porridge. Tobago airport has not really got much going, but Crown Point is pretty close by. Flight got delayed by 2 hours, no-one was told this so were just waiting around. Also was annoying that the Excel and BA were supposed to be flying out all within 5 minutes of each other. As a result a very busy airport!!!
Flight back was pretty fine as well. Watched one movie (movie selection on the way back was poor) had some food and fell asleep. Note, Virgin, headsets poor. I had two broken ones and lady next to me had a broken one. Again, full flight, food ok and service impersonal.
Outbound, you can check in online 24 hours before the flight. Do it!! Means you avoid the queues at Gatwick (basically you just go to the fast bag drop). You get to avoid the really long lines at Gatwick. Also means you can get to Gatwick just 1.30 hours before the flight.
Virgin use a 747-400 for their flight to Tobago (which carries onto Grenada). Its one of he older 747's in Virgin's fleet. This means the IFE is one of the older ones. Basically you get a choice of about 12 movies. The selection on the way out was pretty good. However many people were having problems with the headset sockets resulting in the FA's having to use duct tape. The food was fine. However I found the FA service a bit rushed and impersonal. Also it was a pretty fully flight.
On the way back checked into Tobago about 2 hours before the flight. That was fine. Went across the road and had a few drinks with Porridge. Tobago airport has not really got much going, but Crown Point is pretty close by. Flight got delayed by 2 hours, no-one was told this so were just waiting around. Also was annoying that the Excel and BA were supposed to be flying out all within 5 minutes of each other. As a result a very busy airport!!!
Flight back was pretty fine as well. Watched one movie (movie selection on the way back was poor) had some food and fell asleep. Note, Virgin, headsets poor. I had two broken ones and lady next to me had a broken one. Again, full flight, food ok and service impersonal.