up or down does it matter on Virgin Atlantic?

[CAL2]

Hi we are going to book with Virgin for our flight and looking at booking premium. My question is if I book our seats upstairs will we get stuck in a queue waiting to get off or is it like when you get on the plane, business, premium and then economy or a free for all and best book seats downstairs.?

 

[schumigirl]

Hi we are going to book with Virgin for our flight and looking at booking premium. My question is if I book our seats upstairs will we get stuck in a queue waiting to get off or is it like when you get on the plane, business, premium and then economy or a free for all and best book seats downstairs.?

We’ve experienced it both ways on many flights.

The flight we’ve just had, we had two seats right at the front of the bubble 20 A &C, so we were last out of the bubble and they had already started letting economy passengers out.

Previous flights CC made sure all Premium passengers were off before economy were let through.

So, it’s just your luck it seems from our experience.

 

[peajay18]

In my experience, nearly everybody upstairs - economy and PE - gets off before anyone downstairs, except UC.

 

[Mrs Doubtfire]

We were upstairs in December and some economy passengers were getting off when we came down

 

[CAL2]

thank you for your replies. It looks like downstairs may be a better option. Does anyone know where these seats are located, are they near the door ?

 

[Mrs Doubtfire]

When you get on the plane you turn left and premium economy is there, with first class right at the front.

 

[saintrob]

If you want an early dart from the plane, row 19 downstairs in PE is the best on the plane. Always first off so that you can be well ahead into the immigration hall. When we travelled in PE we always opted for this row.

 

[CAL2]

thank you for your replies its really helped.

 

[Jon84]

Pot luck upstairs, I 100% back what Rob said, row 19 on the left has never let us down!