Virgin delayed 4 and 1/2 hours

[Richard Bruvofetc]

Wow for a brief moment I thought I was back at school..!

Ooops! Apologies. I'm always having to re-write my junior staff e-mails to our sub-contractors just so we can get them to do some work. I think it's rubbing off a little here.

I think you mis-understood me Richard,

I meant that if next year the OP chooses to go with a different airline, say BA, specificaly because of this delay with Virgin today they may not nessesarily be better of as they could be delayed with BA nand the Virgin flight on the same day could get away fine



Jodie

Apologies to you as well Jodie. I'm getting caught up in the whole delay thing! I've only got 6 months until my holiday and I just want to make sure Virgin have VS027 sorted.

 

[PoppyAnna]

Ooops! Apologies. I'm always having to re-write my junior staff e-mails to our sub-contractors just so we can get them to do some work. I think it's rubbing off a little here.


Apologies to you as well Jodie. I'm getting caught up in the whole delay thing! I've only got 6 months until my holiday and I just want to make sure Virgin have VS027 sorted.

I've only got nine more sleeps until I meet with the VS027, I hope it's sorted by then. VA better have it sorted or I'll set my 19month old redhead daughter onto them! She bites, hard!

 

[PoppyAnna]

VS027 due to leave at 1115 - 30 mins late.
According to Gatwick Flight arrivals.

 

[Claire L]

VS027 due to leave at 1115 - 30 mins late.
According to Gatwick Flight arrivals.

Thats pretty good actually as will make up time over the Atlantic so should arrive virtually on time

Claire

 

[XAVIER]

Orlando airport has VS027 arriving at the scheduled time of 15.25. But I thought it was due to arrive at 14.55 (this will be our flight in 3 months time!)
11:15 was the original take-off time before they changed it a couple of months ago and 15.25 the original arrival time!
Maybe it will go back to it's original time slot from now on.

 

[Claire L]

Orlando airport has VS027 arriving at the scheduled time of 15.25. But I thought it was due to arrive at 14.55 (this will be our flight in 3 months time!)
11:15 was the original take-off time before they changed it a couple of months ago and 15.25 the original arrival time!
Maybe it will go back to it's original time slot from now on.

From the VA website -

Flight number VS 027
Departure date 20 Apr 2007
Route London (LGW) to Orlando (MCO)
Scheduled departure time 20 Apr 10:45
Estimated departure time 20 Apr 11:15
Scheduled arrival time 20 Apr 14:55
Estimated arrival time 20 Apr 15:09


Claire

 

[london75]

I've just tried to do some digging as to why there might be a problem and apparently they're mucking about with Heathrow this weekend to completely change the location of the ATC tower and also move over to a different IT system. Wonder if Air Traffic Control are shuffling stuff around and re-organising flight times to facilitate the move? Changes in Heathrow will affect the whole country I'd have thought.

 

[aaronandterri]

hmm im getting a little worried now about the delays after redaing all these posts, we have a month to go, so not long now, i hope everythings ok by then.....

my eldest is Autistic, and waiting will not be a good thing with him around !

 

[astrodrummergirl]

Sorry, this is kind of On topic and Off topic at the same time but as someone said that this can happen with all airlines and just wondering something. The only way we can go cheaply is to use indirect flights, most likely American Airlines, and was wondering if the first flight is delayed and we miss the second, what happens?

Thanks,
A very unexperienced WDW visitor

 

[Richard Bruvofetc]

I've just tried to do some digging as to why there might be a problem and apparently they're mucking about with Heathrow this weekend to completely change the location of the ATC tower and also move over to a different IT system. Wonder if Air Traffic Control are shuffling stuff around and re-organising flight times to facilitate the move? Changes in Heathrow will affect the whole country I'd have thought.

I've been checking arrivals and departures, and it only seems to be Virgin that are suffering the big delays. They're also having some big delays in and out of Manchester as well.

 

[kristieuk]

Sorry, this is kind of On topic and Off topic at the same time but as someone said that this can happen with all airlines and just wondering something. The only way we can go cheaply is to use indirect flights, most likely American Airlines, and was wondering if the first flight is delayed and we miss the second, what happens?

Thanks,
A very unexperienced WDW visitor



They will bump you onto a later connecting flight, but it's obviously easier and more straightforward if you book a 'through trip' rather than two separate flights in the first place - so both carriers are eg American or one of their partners.

 

[astrodrummergirl]

Sorry, this is kind of On topic and Off topic at the same time but as someone said that this can happen with all airlines and just wondering something. The only way we can go cheaply is to use indirect flights, most likely American Airlines, and was wondering if the first flight is delayed and we miss the second, what happens?

Thanks,
A very unexperienced WDW visitor



They will bump you onto a later connecting flight, but it's obviously easier and more straightforward if you book a 'through trip' rather than two separate flights in the first place - so both carriers are eg American or one of their partners.

yeah they are both with american airlines, with direct flights its too expensive to go and when i won't get to go

 

[diswix]

We just arrived home today, no delay (vs028) .
However on our outbound we were delayed 2 hours because a diaper had so say blocked the toilet; that was on the 29th march (vs015). We were so excited, we wern't too worried, however it did mean it was dark by the time we reached the All Star Resort.

 

[Pootle]

According to the Gatwick live flight information site, VS15 took off just over 2 hours late today. I'll be on it tomorrow, so am hoping for the best.

 

[ely3857]

Apologies to you as well Jodie. I'm getting caught up in the whole delay thing! I've only got 6 months until my holiday and I just want to make sure Virgin have VS027 sorted.

S'Okay Richard, if the tides were turned (and in 17 months they may well be!) i'd be twitchy aswell



Jodie

 

[diddldonna]

Where do everyone get these flight details from, would love a link to keep upto date.

Donna

 

[london75]

www.virgin-atlantic.com

Flight Times on the left hand menu

 

[martina857]

It was 9-20 ish when we landed last night!! 11-30pm by the time we had done immigration and picked up the car and driven to our resort ! Virgin it appears were late every single day this week with VS15 I have never seen so many angry people in one airport. To the people who say that it can happen to every airline... Well yes it can but I have been fortunate enough to fly most of the major airlines in the world and a large number of charters, and never had a delay like that !! When you get to the airport at 10-00 am and are told that the flight is delayed till 5 which in reality was past 6!!

Never again, first and last without doubt, I read these boards regularly and thought there must be something special about them with the way they are praised here, we I can tell you now, Continental, US airways, American, First choice, Brittania and Monarch are MILES better !

A very angry Marti

 

[wifey]

We have been keeping a close eye on the Virgin flights too using www.flightview.com and we were worrying about the delays
If London75 is correct then I don't understand why these set backs only seen to affect the Virgin services especially the ones at Manchester.

We can appreciate there can be problems such as idiots putting nappies and sanitary products down the toilets instead of the bins which immediately puts that toilet out of use for the whole day( we've seen it happen sooo many times) and birds on the runway (delayed our last flight 30 mins) which can make an awful mess gong through the engines, or even a dodgy tyre needing to be replaced (took about 40 mins yes had that too) and the favourite from our last flight out had to be getting an engineer to the lock on the hold door to lock it because it refused to lock and we were not allowed to take off before it was fixed and the paperwork filled in in triplicate by the flight crew the engineers and sent to ATC ( that also took 30 mins to fix).Then the flight crew had to wait for a slot on the runway again before we could taxi off thank goodness they only had to wait 10 mins and then we were gone

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

I have had a look at the Virgin aircraft movements for this month. VS 27 is with the exception of two days on time. It is the VS 15 which is late.

Looking more at it, this is due to the incoming Las vegas flight being late, should come in at 09:55, but is coming in around 14:00. This then needs to be turned around for the VS 15.