BOOK NOW: Virgin Atlantic extends Cape Town to April 2025, wide open for points

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• Rizz says:

  14 Aug14 August 20:01

  “ Upper Class is preferable because it is an overnight flight in both directions.”

  That’s somewhat incorrect – the return flight from CPT is a day flight, leaving around 10am. It’s been like this for a few years – this was already pointed out a couple of months ago when you ran another piece on VS from CPT.

• HampshireHog says:

  14 Aug14 August 20:18

  Actualmente nope. The return switches to a night flight after the winter season in April

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 20:28

    Yes, these extra flights are nights both ways – I checked.

• HampshireHog says:

  14 Aug14 August 20:22

  We’re on the day flight back in Premium in January with a civilised 1030 departure. Dunno why BA and now VS insist on keeping their birds on the ground all day in SA when a day flight in anything other than J is much preferable, same same as ex east coast USA which actually thinking about it is pretty rubbish overnight in J as you’re lucky to get 4 hours kip

  • Richie says:

    14 Aug14 August 21:12

    BTW there are daytime flights BOS-LHR, JFK-LHR, ORD-LHR.

  • A says:

    14 Aug14 August 21:19

    US east coast is just about maximising aircraft utilisation with it also suiting the airlines as more night flights = more J revenue. If the service was focussed on what customers actually want, there would be many more daytime flights.

  • Throwawayname says:

    14 Aug14 August 23:13

    Even ORD-FRA proved too short for me to get a decent night’s sleep in a flat seat, I can only see something like BOS-LHR working if one’s very tired and/or boozed up.

  • Nick says:

    15 Aug15 August 01:50

    For airlines that go after cheapskate customers, it may well be the case that a day flight is better. But BA doesn’t… they want business customers who pay through the nose to maximise efficiency by flying overnight. Note that Durban ran as a day flight in one direction, reflecting its lower-yield nature as a leisure and VFR route.

    One of my favourite stories is from when BA tried desperately to make a day flight work HKG-LHR, but whatever they did customers wouldn’t pay for it and eventually it had to be scrapped.

• Throwawayname says:

  14 Aug14 August 20:30

  Thought I would check the fares in W so that I can have a chance of using my upgrade vouchers without paying extortionate surcharges. Just £1600+ exLHR or €1900+ exCDG. They can keep their vouchers, I will continue using my VS miles on AF redemptions.

• babyg_wc says:

  14 Aug14 August 20:33

  book new or now?

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 20:39

    Argggh!

• john says:

  15 Aug15 August 10:16

  Did seats to Antigua and Barbados get released at the same time, since they were also increasing them after dropping Bahamas and Turks/Caicos, or were they already bookable?

  • Rob says:

    15 Aug15 August 10:45

    Those seats were already available because Bahamas / Turks were just tags on those services. To be honest I never worked out exactly how they managed the guaranteed availability for the tag routes.

    • john says:

      15 Aug15 August 11:06

      I thought there was a frequency increase hitting those routes though and as a result, there should be new seats?

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