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.

    • Bagoly says:

      14 Dec14 December 09:35

      E.g. https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/9776248/british-airways-lost-delayed-bags/

      I would suggest that the chances of luggage being lost are much higher if connecting.
      So overnight stays on the way out where one gets one’s baggage for the night do reduce the risk.

• 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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