spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Posted (10 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2766 times:
I live near JFK and used to see G-VROC fly in on flight VIR45/46 frequently, being rotated with G-VBIG and G-VHOT. I was looking on flightaware and noticed that G-VROC has been operating LGW-BGI and other caribbean destinations, and thought, "Oh, alright. It's been operating some Caribbean flights recently", but then realized it was Bridgetown to GATWICK! Was this aircraft converted to the Gatwick/Manchester configuration? If so, why? Is it because of G-VRAY and other a330s coming online?
jwhite9185 From United Kingdom, joined May 2007, 722 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (10 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2466 times:
BGI is frequently operated by a LHR config. Last year VFAB was based at LGW for many months. I believe VROC is operating the inaugural VS flight to CUN as we speak.
AAMDanny From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2008, 315 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (10 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1435 times:
Hi VIR744, How long will ROS & GAL be gone for?
VS have been sending the LHR config 747's into LGW for years now, primarily in the winter so routes like BGI and occasionally UVF & ANU have the extra J and W capacity (and the better IFE system) so it's an win-win with customers and revenue.
psimpson From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (10 months 2 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1188 times:
Viewing my Airnav Radarbox Hong Kong network yesterday morning, i saw Virgin Atlantic B747-400 G-VAST arriving into Hong Kong as VIR812P. This might also explain why B747-400 G-VROC is operating out of LGW .
sevenheavy From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 1126 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (10 months 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1148 times:
Quoting psimpson (Reply 6): Viewing my Airnav Radarbox Hong Kong network yesterday morning, i saw Virgin Atlantic B747-400 G-VAST arriving into Hong Kong as VIR812P. This might also explain why B747-400 G-VROC is operating out of LGW .
G-VAST's refit is complete. It was leaving HKG and is back in service today. G-VLIP is due in HKG tomorrow and is the third B744 in for the refit.
VIR744 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2006, 55 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (10 months 2 weeks ago) and read 881 times:
Quoting AAMDanny (Reply 5): Hi VIR744, How long will ROS & GAL be gone for?
G-VROS is back from FRA, G-VGAL is out there at the moment. I'm not sure how soon it is due back but won't be too far off now as it is just a C check, although these are getting longer nowadays.
spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (10 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 832 times:
Quoting VIR744 (Reply 8): G-VROS is back from FRA, G-VGAL is out there at the moment. I'm not sure how soon it is due back but won't be too far off now as it is just a C check, although these are getting longer nowadays.
I wasn't aware that they did their checks in FRA. Must be cool to be spotting at FRA and see a VS 744 coming in amongst all the LH aircraft!
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