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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 (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 14429 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 Philippines, joined May 1999, 3174 posts, RR: 47
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 14374 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

Air Asia Super Elite, Cebu Pacific Titanium

Fbgdavidson From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 3687 posts, RR: 31
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 14306 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: 15
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 14292 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]

No Vueling No Party

LipeGIG From Brazil, joined May 2005, 11201 posts, RR: 61
Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 14053 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

New York + Rio de Janeiro = One of the best combinations !

Semsem From Israel, joined Jul 2005, 1779 posts, RR: 3
Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 13979 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: 12
Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 13841 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 (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 13741 times:

Good report. Very interesting.

Cheers

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

Intothinair From Germany, joined Mar 2005, 392 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 13732 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 Venezuela, joined Jan 2005, 5857 posts, RR: 40
Reply 9, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 13518 times:

Great report (very intresting picutres) !

thank you.

regards
Avianca

Colombia es el Mundo Y el Mundo es Colombia

Brasuca From Brazil, joined Mar 2004, 717 posts, RR: 12
Reply 10, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 13394 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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Click here for bigger photo!

Photo © Bernardo Andrade

Varig, Varig, Varig

Hardiwv From Brazil, joined Oct 2004, 8780 posts, RR: 52
Reply 11, posted (7 years 8 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 13010 times:

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

Nice to read another good report on RG, despite all its financial problems!

Rgs,
Hardi

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