EGPF Forum

Virgin will be flying year round with no gap between feb and may , good news and shows confidence in service . Will be weekly A332 in winter and usual 744 rest of the year .

Vs leaving LGW... gonna be a ghost town if BA leave as reported. Also all 744 are to leave the fleet

Operations from LHR and MAN only I've read on facebook.

Sad news

Here's a link
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus- ... m_b51f4JmY

Ekally1 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 10:53 am Virgin will be flying year round with no gap between feb and may , good news and shows confidence in service . Will be weekly A332 in winter and usual 744 rest of the year .

How did this get to being to no 747's and no GLA within a day ?

Allen McL wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 2:01 pm

Ekally1 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 10:53 am Virgin will be flying year round with no gap between feb and may , good news and shows confidence in service . Will be weekly A332 in winter and usual 744 rest of the year .

How did this get to being to no 747's and no GLA within a day ?

Things will get worse before they get better I fear

So just watched the BBC News report and it sounds more like temporary LGW withdrawal as the 744's leave early. Presumably incoming leisure configured A350 or A339Neo will pick this up in 2021/22 if that plan still holds ?

They also want to be back to 60% of regular flying by 2020 year end. So assuming there's to be no GLA this year, will there be any next year or by 2022 ? What happens to those who already had their Virgin Holidays booked for later this year, ex GLA, once flying resumes ? Are they going to be consolidated into MAN traffic or will an A330 appear here ?

Vs offered me a GLA-MCO rebook this afternoon ...

Ekally1 wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 3:10 pm Vs offered me a GLA-MCO rebook this afternoon ...

What were the options offered ?

GLA-MCO direct 12 sept .. I am getting refund as I was meant to have gone this week. was changing account details as credit card I payed with is closed , I said I was open to rebook if price was right and I was offered that date as I am off that fortnight VS71 but said no as it was an extra 400 quid ..was again offered vouchers but declined.. this was a few hours ago

Ekally1 wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 3:22 pm GLA-MCO direct 12 sept .. I am getting refund as I was meant to have gone this week. was changing account details as credit card I payed with is closed , I said I was open to rebook if price was right and I was offered that date as I am off that fortnight VS71 but said no as it was an extra 400 quid ..was again offered vouchers but declined.. this was a few hours ago

Yep, rumours of their GLA withdrawal are I’ll informed.

Not only that but loads and profits are astronomical at GLA. Even with downsizing in the London market this little gem should remain.

C