Globespan

[stal]

On the web site, when you have put in your details it gives you the option of flight only or flight and hotel.

when i put '0' in the required number of rooms it comes up with an error!

 

[stal]

oh i can see it now, i was on the holiday section of the site

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

According to this web site
http://www.flightmapping.com/news/588.aspx

You will have to pay for any in flight meals. Nice.

 

[Miffy2003]

According to this web site
http://www.flightmapping.com/news/588.aspx

You will have to pay for any in flight meals. Nice.

I wouldn't care if I had to pay an extra £20 per person to save significantly more. People above have posted £200 or more savings per person by my calculations.

However I know you and I will have to agree to disagree on this subject Obi I just felt it was worth pointing out that the costs are far outweighed by the savings.

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I wouldn't care if I had to pay an extra £20 per person to save significantly more. People above have posted £200 or more savings per person by my calculations.

However I know you and I will have to agree to disagree on this subject Obi I just felt it was worth pointing out that the costs are far outweighed by the savings.

No, its not that Miffy, I know some people only want (or can only afford) the cheapest, but I wanted to make it clear that food was extra, so that people would not be caught out. The buisness class sounds interesting, 50" plus beds?

 

[Miffy2003]

Obi - thanks for clarifying

 

[Cinders Mum]

Obi

For some people having inflight meals are important which is why they offer the premium service which includes the inflight movies and food. However if you compare like I did the "service" we received from Virgin Atlantic this year where the movies choice was poor and the food offerings were inedible for my daughter and the adult meals were mushroom risotto, beef and mushroom stew or chicken and mushroom then to be honest I'd rather take sandwiches and snacks. Globespan will be offering the option to purchase items of food on board.
What Globespan are offering is no different to any of the charter operators who do not include meals in their prices but offer the chance to add it on. Whatever it can only be good for the consumer north of the border to put a bit more pressure on the other operators to be more competative than they have been in recent years!

Val
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[Pootle]

I wish Globespan all the luck in the world with this and hope it's a great success.

My concern would not be paying for food (I'm with Val on that one; often I'd have preferred a good sandwich to what had been offered) but the seat pitch. Obi's link gives an economy minimum (my italics) of 31" and a Premier Economy of 32"-36".

Now as seat pitch is far more important to our tall family than inflight entertainment or food offered, I would be pretty miffed to have paid the extra only to find I had exactly the same amount of leg room as someone in economy! Surely this can't be right?

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I do wish them all the best, as you say for the Scots it has to be a good move, and any extra flights can only keep the consumer happy, though as more flights use Sanford, it will be intersting how that small airport copes.

I do however, question a daily service, as I do not feel there is enough trade south of the border for a daily service and there is very little customer input from south of the border when you have Manchester servicing that customer base.
It would be interesting to know how many Scots travel down to Gatwick & manchester for the Orlando flights as this has to be their customer base. I would imagine that would be weekend flights in the main as well.
Would I travel up from the Midlands for these flights? no.

I have always found Virgin food to be OK, as I have said in another thread, they lose on this point to BA and do need to get their act together on this, the change of catering firms has not made this better actually worse in many peoples eyes. But if I am travelling for eight hours on a flight, I would want a hot food choice rather than a "and salad" overpriced sandwich to sustain me, but thats down to the individual and I am covered by scheduled airlines facilities.

 

[TandCmum]

I do wish them all the best, as you say for the Scots it has to be a good move, and any extra flights can only keep the consumer happy, though as more flights use Sanford, it will be intersting how that small airport copes.

I do however, question a daily service, as I do not feel there is enough trade south of the border for a daily service and there is very little customer input from south of the border when you have Manchester servicing that customer base.
It would be interesting to know how many Scots travel down to Gatwick & manchester for the Orlando flights as this has to be their customer base. I would imagine that would be weekend flights in the main as well.
Would I travel up from the Midlands for these flights? no.

I have always found Virgin food to be OK, as I have said in another thread, they lose on this point to BA and do need to get their act together on this, the change of catering firms has not made this better actually worse in many peoples eyes. But if I am travelling for eight hours on a flight, I would want a hot food choice rather than a "and salad" overpriced sandwich to sustain me, but thats down to the individual and I am covered by scheduled airlines facilities.

I think you would be surprised quite how many Scots travel down to Gatwick to fly to Florida. On our BA connecting flight in September from Edinburgh to LGW there were 3 families all catching the Virgin flight. Add to that any that were catching the later flight or had gone down the night before.

Suzanne
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