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GRU-LHR With Varig MD-11 First Class (Many Pics)

Magicalchaz From Australia, joined Aug 2001, 64 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 2 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 7458 times:

Hi again, hope you guys are not bored with my reviews yet.
This time is Varig First Class Flight RG8756 GRU-LHR on 6 August 2005

Here is the link to me review page and again enjoy
http://www.hflight.net/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?b=review,m=1123564284

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Lufthansa747 From Finland, joined May 1999, 2955 posts, RR: 47
Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 months 5 days ago) and read 7403 times:

Another great report! RG F looks much better than I have read before. I guess you just don't like caviar, one of my pet peeves is when airlines such as BA and UA don't serve caviar in First.

Keep up the great work!

Regards from BKK,

LH747

Sriwijaya Air - Your Flying Partner

Fbgdavidson From United Kingdom (England), joined Oct 2004, 3409 posts, RR: 34
Reply 2, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 7335 times:

Either the Thai military makes you travel a lot or you have very itchy feet! (47,000 miles in a month is pretty high for an 'average month'!) Regardless we are the beneficiarys of another excellent report thumbsup

PS. Doesn't it annoy you that you have to make a separate post for each picture on that website?

"My first job was selling doors, door to door, that's a tough job innit" - Bill Bailey

AlitaliaMD11 From Spain, joined Dec 2003, 4068 posts, RR: 19
Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 7321 times:

Forgive my rudeness but you must be awfully rich to be always flying First Class or Business Class! wideeyed

[Edited 2005-09-08 23:13:49]

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LipeGIG From Brazil, joined May 2005, 7825 posts, RR: 63
Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 7082 times:

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Quoting Magicalchaz (Thread starter):

Great trip report! Good to see that Varig by far keeps with their service (IMO one of the best in the world). The problem is the lack of good equipment as they have only two good planes to face competition (PP-VRA and VRB, both 772ER).
I use to travel RG business on domestic and some int`l routes and i know the quality of their service is incredible!

Felipe

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Semsem From Israel, joined Jul 2005, 1769 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 7008 times:

Great pictures thank you. I flew on Varig on a 707 from Rio to New York in economy 27 years ago and it was great. However I am not sure whether they have maintained the quality of service as they too are facing hard times.

Brasuca From Brazil, joined Mar 2004, 717 posts, RR: 15
Reply 6, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 6870 times:

Very interesting indeed and great Trip Report! Thank you!

However, what a shame on that monitor and Varig F Class... And it's a pity you could not enjoy RG lounge.

Long life to Varig!

Varig, Varig, Varig

LHB727230Adv From Germany, joined Mar 2005, 255 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 6770 times:

Good report. Very interesting.

Cheers

[Edited 2005-09-09 16:22:44]

Intothinair From Germany, joined Mar 2005, 389 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (4 years 2 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 6761 times:

Well done. Excellent trip report. The food looked very delicious. Great to have a trip report of an airline, of which there aren't to many trip reports.

Cheers, Konstantin G.

Avianca From Peru, joined Jan 2005, 4942 posts, RR: 46
Reply 9, posted (4 years 2 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 6547 times:

Great report (very intresting picutres) !

thank you.

regards
Avianca

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Brasuca From Brazil, joined Mar 2004, 717 posts, RR: 15
Reply 10, posted (4 years 2 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 6423 times:

Quoting LipeGIG (Reply 4):
The problem is the lack of good equipment as they have only two good planes to face competition (PP-VRA and VRB, both 772ER).

You are right! Despite their financial problems, RG is a good airline after all. The problem was their not updated MD11. Look at this instead:

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Photo © Bernardo Andrade

Varig, Varig, Varig

Hardiwv From Netherlands, joined Oct 2004, 7482 posts, RR: 58
Reply 11, posted (4 years 2 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 6039 times:

Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

As Felipe mentioned, RG's problem is the outdated planes/seats. RG seats for a first class looks even worse than an average biz class seat on a good airline.
However, RG service and food can make it up! Smile