Virgin Holidays - No direct London flights April 2022

[benjy365]

Hi all.

First post on here. I have been doing some planning over the last week to hopefully book our trip for next Easter. I have priced a few options up with Virgin holidays over the past few days and today when going to show the good lady wife I cannot find a single direct flight from London to Orlando as part of the package, a few days ago I was getting multiple options.

To make matters more confusing if I just go to book flights on the Virgin Atlantic website then I can get direct flights but when I try and add a hotel to the same booking its suddenly all flights via Atlanta.

Has anyone come across this before? Is this possibly a website glitch for today or is there something I am not aware of where Virgin holidays only have a few flights and these have now sold out?

Thanks in advance.

 

[gismo1554]

Its probably because the flights have only just been released. It sometimes causes glitches on the website. Can you tick a box to say you only want direct flights on the Virgin site? They only release flights around 11 months in advance I think so the likelihood is in the next few weeks it will appear

 

[McCrae]

Similar with BA. My guess is this is a reaction to the failure to announce a flight corridor with the US. The industry was expecting this to happen. Now that it hasn't staff have been sent home on furlough.

 

[Ellie Webbs]

Sounds like a glitch, we haven't long booked for april next year and got LHR to MCO with no issues with virgin

 

[benjy365]

Thanks for the responses everyone. I ended up booking some flights with Virgin directly as they were a good deal so we will book our accommodation and tickets etc separately.

Fingers crossed Covid is behind us by then and we can travel.

 

[MadScouser]

We have avios flights with BA for April, one to NYC and back from MCO .