Entertainment on Virgin flights?

[MorningGlory]

Hi all, I have a couple of questions regarding the entertainment on the seatback TVs. We are flying from Manchester in economy.

Are the movies, documentaries, tv programs shown on Virgin flights 'on-demand'? i.e Can we watch what we want, when we want?

What is the chances that we will get a plane that junior can play games on? My understanding is this is limited on Virgin flights, Manchester being most so. Is there any MAN flights that have this capability?

Thanks

 

[Claire L]

Unfortunately unless you have a change of aircraft for technical/maintainence reasons you won't get the on demand or games these are only on the Heathrow planes

Claire

 

[wickesy]

There are three planes that sometimes do the Gatwick/Manchester - Orlando run that have games on them. They are Virginia Plain, Ruby Tuesday and Ladybird. Unfortunately even those three don't have on demand video though.

 

[Elise79]

There are 3 entertainment systems on the Virgin planes:Nova, Odyssey and V-Port.

V-Port is only on LHR planes and has the the on demand functions plus the best games.

Odyssey is on 3 of the LGW/MAN planes is has more channels than Nova and has some older games.

Nova was the orginal entertainment system and just has six TV channels plus some music. It is the most basic and is fitted to 5 of the LGW/MAN.

Have a look at V-flyer for more info.

Unfortunatley the chances are not good of getting one of the better planes so plane accordingly

Elise

 

[wayneg]

Plane we had going out from Man at Easter had games system and about 8-10 films to choose from.
The return flight had about 8-10 films again but no games system, worst plane I have ever been on transatlantic, and that includes the TCD plane.
Take some snacks with you also the food was disgusting. Glad we took some sarnies with us.

 

[Twilight Terror]

There are 3 entertainment systems on the Virgin planes:Nova, Odyssey and V-Port.

V-Port is only on LHR planes and has the the on demand functions plus the best games.

Odyssey is on 3 of the LGW/MAN planes is has more channels than Nova and has some older games.

Nova was the orginal entertainment system and just has six TV channels plus some music. It is the most basic and is fitted to 5 of the LGW/MAN.

Have a look at V-flyer for more info.

Unfortunatley the chances are not good of getting one of the better planes so plane accordingly

Elise

Wow, we must have been lucky then! We had the plane with the games system on our flight out last year. The flight was so empty, that we all spread out a bit and I ended up playing chess against my mum who was a couple of seats away! That was pretty entertaining, for 10-minutes anyway! Still no films on demand, but with each cycle you could chose any of the films, rather than having only 3 or 4 to chose from for each cycle.

 

[diddldonna]

November 2005 we got a virgin plane from Gatwick this included the games entertainement system which was a surprise and it was great fun, spent most of the journey playing on it. Sadly on the way home we just had the Movies but they had some great films.

Donna

 

[XAVIER]

We've only had the games once in twelve trans-atlantic flights so I would presume you won't have them. (And if you are lucky enough to get them it will be a nice bonus!)

My kids have Gameboys and Ninetendo DS's so I usually buy them a new game for the flight to keep them quiet! (Worth every penny!)

 

[MorningGlory]

Thanks everyone for all the info. I guess we can live in hope

Xavier: Junior has his PSP, so I was thinking about buying him a new game and giving him it on the plane. Think I definitely will do it now

 

[Hobbes]

Make sure you take Junior to buy new games at Virgin megastore whilst you're there-games are about the same price in dollars as they are in pounds here!

 

[gilld]

We had Ruby Tuesday, and so the games also, on our flight to Barbados last month.

 

[MorningGlory]

Make sure you take Junior to buy new games at Virgin megastore whilst you're there-games are about the same price in dollars as they are in pounds here!

I thought I read somewhere that games bought in the US are not compatible on UK machines?

Anyone know if this is the case with the PSP?

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Just had a look at April's VS75 flights from Manchester:
Sun 1st N/A
Mon 2nd VTOP "Virginia Plain" Odyssey
Tue 3rd VTOP "Virginia Plain" Odyssey
Wed 4th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Thur 5th VGAL "Jersey Girl" Nova
Fri 6th VGAL Nova"Jersey Girl" Nova
Sat 7th VGAL "Jersey Girl" Nova
Sun 8th N/a
Mon 9th N/A
Tue 10th VGAL "Jersey Girl" Nova
Wed 11th N/A
Thur 12th VROM "Barbarella" Nova
Fri 13th VROM "Barbarella" Nova
Sat 14th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Sun 15th N/A
Mon 16th N/A
Tue 17th VXLG "Ruby Tuesday" Odyssey
Wed 18th VXLG "Ruby Tuesday" Odyssey
Thur 19th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Fri 20th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Sat 21st VROM "Barbarella" Nova
Sun 22nd N/A
Mon 23rd VGAL "Jersey Girl" Nova
Tue 24th VXLG "Ruby Tuesday" Odyssey
Wed 25th VXLG "Ruby Tuesday" Odyssey
Thur 26th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Fri 27th VLIP "Hot Lips" Nova
Sat 28th VROS "English Rose" Nova
Sun 29th VROS "English Rose" Nova
Mon 30th VROS "English Rose" Nova
May
Tue 1st VROM "Barbarella" Nova
Wed 2nd VROM "Barbarella" Nova

So out of 25 flights, 6 with Oddyssey the rest with Nova. In April, more chace of Oddyssey if flying out Mon Or Tuesday

 

[MorningGlory]

In April, more chace of Oddyssey if flying out Mon Or Tuesday

Would be interesting to see if that trend continues through May and June. We fly out on the Thursday, so right now i'd say we have zero chance

Thanks for digging out the info Obi

 

[wicket2005]

Anyone know if this is the case with the PSP?

Depends what games console you are talking about. I believe with the psp the games are compatible but to play against another psp you would both need the same brand of game ie PAL or the American version. I think it is just the umds that are region coded.

 

[XAVIER]

Playstation and xbox games are region coded I believe but any games for portable consoles are definately okay.

 

[MorningGlory]

Thanks for the replies wicker and Xavier

Junior is gonna have a field day when he finds that out

 

[Debbied]

Obi,
where do you find out what planes are flying on certain days? when can I find out about August from gatwick?

 

[MorningGlory]

Obi,
where do you find out what planes are flying on certain days? when can I find out about August from gatwick?

I think that sort of info would only come out after the event Debbie, so August's would be given out in September (Obi posted April - which I assume became available in May).

I doubt they would schedule specific planes for specific days. I might be wrong though (wouldn't be the first time )

 

[Debbied]

That makes sense given the flying situation at present, no harm in hoping though, don't know why i'm pants at video games