Virgin or British Airways?

tabs · 12 May 2006 at 11:58

Hello,

Flying to Orlando at the end of the month and both of the above are the same price flight wise (Economy). Which one do people recommend?

Taabish

daveyj27 · 12 May 2006 at 11:59

Virgin, every time. :cool:

Gobbledegeek · 12 May 2006 at 12:02

I've flown trans-Atlantic with Virgin and thought they were very good.

I've flown with BA a couple of times and thought they were grossly over rated and equally over priced; awful with kids.

tabs · 12 May 2006 at 12:02

Any particular reason? I'd prefer to go via AA as i thought they were a lot better than British Airways the last time i flew with them. I havent flown with Virgin for years and cant remember a thing.

Third Opinion · 12 May 2006 at 12:03

Virgin if you plan to go Economy.

VeNT · 12 May 2006 at 12:03

Virgins nice, its got good space seats and games on the screen things etc, its quite nice.

Sirrel Squirrel · 12 May 2006 at 12:05

Virgin for the win

edit/ just to add that American Airlines absolutely suck

daveyj27 · 12 May 2006 at 12:05

tabs said:
Any particular reason? I'd prefer to go via AA as i thought they were a lot better than British Airways the last time i flew with them. I havent flown with Virgin for years and cant remember a thing.

From London to Boston (and return), i've flown Virgin, BA, AA, Air Canada, and Aer Lingus, and Virgin have been vastly superior to the others.

BrightonBelle · 12 May 2006 at 12:10

Virgin.

BA Long Haul are terrible in my experience.

BB x

Arpegius · 12 May 2006 at 12:27

daveyj27 said:
Virgin, every time.

Pretty much what I was going to say. I've flown both and normally go Virgin if I have the choice. Just seems nicer

richard smith · 12 May 2006 at 12:44

So the vote seems to be for Virgin?

Cool as I'm off to Nashua NH via Boston in a couple of weeks... cheers

Rich_L · 12 May 2006 at 12:45

daveyj27 said:
Virgin, every time.

basmic · 12 May 2006 at 12:45

Virgin, all the way.

I have never flown in my life. However Virgin seem to excel in making good products and packages, at none rip-off prices. :cool:

I love their trains, especially. :cool:

booyaka · 12 May 2006 at 12:55

only flown 1st class sleeper lounge with Virgin and it was superb!!!

Got bumped off an Aer Lingus flight, Got £200 for the inconvience of moving to another flight and got 1st class virgin flight from NY to London!!!!!

AHHHHH - it's a tough life!!!!

Virgin economy seemed to have a fair bit of room - go for them.

daveyj27 · 12 May 2006 at 12:55

richard smith said:
Cool as I'm off to Nashua NH via Boston in a couple of weeks... cheers

Small world.
I'm off to Manchester, NH in just over a week. Have a look on a map at the proximity.

richard smith · 12 May 2006 at 12:59

daveyj27 said:
Small world.
I'm off to Manchester, NH in just over a week. Have a look on a map at the proximity.

Yeah, right next door.

volospian · 12 May 2006 at 12:59

A lot of people rate Virgin Atlantic. I flew with them to South Africa and they sucked, but when I told people who had used them to fly to America, they couldn't believe that we had had any issues with them.

Stringy · 12 May 2006 at 13:19

Used both to Florida, Virgin was much better than BA, which were nothing special. BA are good to Europe though I find

Yas786 · 12 May 2006 at 13:46

Ive used both and have to say virgin economy is brilliant, much better than BA. Ba i dont fly economy, its usually business or first class i fly with them.

Beansprout · 12 May 2006 at 13:49

Both are good, Virgin seem to have a better sense of humour and the entertainment system absolutely rocks (although I think all airlines are introducing these new on-demand systems now).

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