News: £30 of free Uber credit for NHS staff, Virgin pulls Manchester to Delhi and Mumbai

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• Baji Nahid says:

  13 Dec13 December 05:10

  Oh no, why would they drop DEL and BOM? Thought they would be able to capture the market to America through MAN? Though i wonder, has VS started their flights to America from MAN yet? (aware about the US border closure though) though MAN needs an indian link and VS could have bridged that gap.

  • Rhys says:

    13 Dec13 December 09:44

    Clearly far less demand to India. I’ve been told the Pakistan routes are doing very well, though.

    • Charlieface says:

      13 Dec13 December 12:38

      Odd, because there is a massive Indian community in the North West.

      • Aston100 says:

        13 Dec13 December 15:25

        Are they definitely Indian though?

        • Peter K says:

          13 Dec13 December 21:08

          My experience of West Yorkshire was mainly Pakistani/Bangladeshi heritage, far fewer of Indian heritage.

  • Bob says:

    14 Dec14 December 16:17

    2 months ago did LHR to DEL on Virgin and only 70 people in economy. Good service and flight as bearable as could be.

• Jonathan says:

  13 Dec13 December 07:00

  VA must’ve thought that there was more demand for these routes than what there actually was. Although given the way things have been for most of 2020, it’s a tough estimate to make on how many of their seats will be filled

  • Nick says:

    13 Dec13 December 10:39

    I doubt Virgin Australia gives a fig how these routes are doing. Virgin Atlantic (VS) has much more to care about.

    • RussellH says:

      13 Dec13 December 10:59

      Perhaps we should annotate – VA(abbr) / VS(iata) for you?
      It is always quite clear from the context which airline is being talked about.
      🙂
      Much more annoying (I find), is people who use LH for longhaul when (obviously) it really means Lufthansa.
      But, being intelligent, I can usually work out the meaning.
      We all have far more important things to wory about.

• ben says:

  13 Dec13 December 07:56

  israel to start flights to morocco soon, so good stopover

  • Charlieface says:

    13 Dec13 December 12:39

    Unlikely if you’re visibly Jewish

    • The real John says:

      13 Dec13 December 13:34

      What’s unlikely?

      • Charlieface says:

        13 Dec13 December 15:28

        Unlikely to be a good stopover

• twoclicks says:

  13 Dec13 December 10:02

  Regarding Royal Air Maroc, tbh, I am a bit worried. Social media posts are just a litany of complaints about them losing luggage with less than impressive responses. Is this just a bad impression? Or any truth in it?

  • David says:

    13 Dec13 December 11:18

    Isn’t most social media for airlines also always full of that.

• Alastair says:

  15 Dec15 December 09:55

  To update some of the Royal Air Maroc info in this article…

  It looks like these new Agadir and Marrakech routes are being sold as Gatwick, not Heathrow. This makes a little more sense, as I would imagine they are leisure-heavy. It isn’t clear to me if there is a BA codeshare, or if BA will ever resume LGW-RAK in addition. RAM operates from North at Gatwick, which is useful as it’s the terminal that’s currently open; again, unclear if that was the reason for the decision or just a happy coincidence. Oddly, BA does list LGW-AGA in its Tier Point calculator earning (80 each way) Tier Points but zero Avios which is presumably a mistake.

  The published RAM fares are still wildly uncompetitive, although I notice the welcome addition of a new fare description “Business Essential” for discounted I class. However, at £450 roundtrip they are still not remotely in Tier Point run territory. And at £160 in W class you’d be better off booking easyJet with all the trimmings. Still, a step in the right direction.

  I imagine RAM is keeping some LHR slots warm for BA with is CMN-LHR and will return to LGW at some point in the future for all its routes, but who knows.

  • Rob says:

    15 Dec15 December 10:19

    Thanks Alastair, will update.

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