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7 May 20, 03:03 PM |
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I haven September flights booked with virgin from Glasgow and had no idea they are stopping them? Can someone tell me what’s happening? Thanks so much xx
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7 May 20, 03:06 PM |
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7 May 20, 03:11 PM |
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Oh no! The news just gets worse and worse each day! I love this route as makes life so much easier with my autistic son and toddler would hate the thought off having to travel to Manchester. What do people think they would offer instead? Would we get a full refund of our route was no more? Xx
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7 May 20, 03:43 PM |
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I see there is a virgin 747 just landed at glasgow today from heathrow. is this flying to Orlando tomorrow? or just parking them up at Glasgow
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7 May 20, 03:58 PM |
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The 747's were immediately withdrawn from passenger service the other day and all virgin flights so far have been cancelled from Glasgow until 23rd May...that'll keep rolling until they make an announcement saying otherwise.
That flight is either operational to park it up until it's final destination is decided or it's a cargo flight to bring supplies up from LHR.
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7 May 20, 04:03 PM |
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Daft thing is though they continue to sell seats on 747s as well as flights from Gatwick
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7 May 20, 04:15 PM |
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They've not handled this situation well at all.
All of the 747's are now either at Man or GLA from what i can see. 2 of them (G-VXLG at GLA & G-VAST at MAN) are airline owned, the rest are leased so will likely be getting primed to be de-branded and then returned to the lessee for them to decide if they lease them out again or scrap. I'd imagine they'll aim to hold onto the pair of these and do some special flights before they are retired to give the 747 a send off like they no doubt had planned.
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7 May 20, 04:16 PM |
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slightly serious Dibber
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Does Anyone know what planes are replacing the 747?
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7 May 20, 04:17 PM |
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7 May 20, 04:31 PM |
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Eventually, once they're all delivered, it'll be the A350 but that'll be a long term as the ones they have just now are setup for business not leisure.
What aircraft in the short term, it'll likely be a mix of what's left which are A330's & Dreamliners Virgin's active fleet is: 14 x A330's, 17 x Dreamliners & 4 x A350's (3 more have been named but are not yet delivered) The major issue Virgin have is the quality issues of the dreamliner engines...they could easily find themselves with problems and needing to wet lease.
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