L104me From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 105 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2578 times:
Today at around 3:20pm, I was driving by TPA and noticed a Virgin Atlantic 747-200 parked at the F Concourse. I'm not sure why it was here, but two fire units were parked behind the aircraft. I looked on FlyteComm and FlightArrivals.com and did not see anything showing it landing. I know the 200's are used for the Manchester to Orlando flight, so it may have been a weather diversion. The weather is Tampa was ok, but who knows!
AirWales From UK - Wales, joined Oct 2004, 453 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2556 times:
No idea why it was there but I thought VS had just got rid of all of its 742?? I thought they had been sold to Russia but 1 may be going to a home in the US?????
SongStar From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 132 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2464 times:
Landed right in front of my flight from bos to tpa today....due to severe turbulence over northern fla today we were 1 1/2 hrs late....the virgin flight diverted to tpa due to weather in the mco area
StevenUhl777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2182 times:
Quoting L104me (Thread starter): due to severe turbulence over northern fla today we were 1 1/2 hrs late....the virgin flight diverted to tpa due to weather in the mco area
My relatives were lucky then....they were on VS027 from LGW yesterday, and I followed their flight on www.fboweb.com. They flew to Charleston, SC, and then made a turn back to the NE and flew for about 20-30 miles I think, turned back to the SW towards MCO, and ended up continuing towards MCO. I thought perhaps they would have diverted to either CLT or possibly ATL. I knew that weather was really bad, as my parents who are vacationing down there were driving south on I-95 and it was stopped cold. They ended up taking an alternate route to MCO, and got there just in time to meet VS027.
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