Virgin Atlantic returns to Brussels!

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• David says:

  27 Oct27 October 11:17

  How long does it take to remove seats for these kind of flights?

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    27 Oct27 October 12:26

    Seats don’t get removed. They just use the cargo hold.

    • meta says:

      27 Oct27 October 14:19

      Not so sure, during pandemic they used them with seats in place. Imagine how clean the seats will be after this!

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        27 Oct27 October 21:31

        That is as then. This is now.

        • meta says:

          27 Oct27 October 21:58

          How do you know?

• Nico says:

  27 Oct27 October 12:47

  Would be interesting to understand how much money they make

• Joe says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:16

  You had me in the first half…!

  Upper Class lounge for a European City Break. Yes please.

• Alan Wheeler says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:32

  For me this is nothing more than preserving their slots. They must have worked out it either costs less or loses less money than operating a winter loss making route.

• Nick says:

  27 Oct27 October 13:44

  Slot sitting, pure and simple. Those with long memories will remember the US carriers flying LHR-BRU a few times a day after the 2008 financial crash and recession – yes they carried a handful of passengers but really it was no different to this. BRU is the choice because they don’t charge large fees to leave aircraft sitting round for hours (and have lots of space to do it).

  • Jetset Boyz says:

    28 Oct28 October 05:35

    “they don’t charge large fees to leave aircraft sitting round for hours”

    If you look at the schedule for VS505 and VS506… you’ll see the plane is on the ground in Brussels for just 65 minutes on five of the seven days it operates. Once the aircraft gets back to LHR it’s unloaded, then put into service on a passenger route.

• Richard M says:

  27 Oct27 October 15:05

  With Eurostar overloaded and charging crazy prices, surely here’s an opportunity to make a few extra quid

• BlairWaldorfSalad says:

  27 Oct27 October 20:27

  Outrageously offensive to passengers being shoved into the old coffin seats whilst a newer jet is used for cargo. Utterly baffling when you think a Virgin first timer will experience the coffin seats and promptly report back to their acquaintances that Virgin is actually c**p. They could have minimised that by directing the new aircraft to, gosh i dunno, passenger flights!!!

  • Chris W says:

    27 Oct27 October 23:06

    Yeah that’s a good point. Why on earth would they use their flagship aircraft for a cargo route.

    • Londonsteve says:

      28 Oct28 October 15:13

      Presumably because it has superior cargo capacity, considering this is the sole purpose of the route?

• Alex G says:

  27 Oct27 October 22:45

  If VS is having to get creative to hold on to their slots, how is BA dealing with all the cancellations arising from the 787 engine problems?

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