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virgin or British Airways?
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Virgin and BA are selling london-dubai for the same price of approx 240 pounds return. My question is, which is best? They both seem equally good companies to me!
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I agree. Virgin give you an ice cream halfway across the Atlantic (well, they did last time I flew with them), so maybe you'd get one en route to Dubai as well. BA don't do it. Generally Virgin give you slightly more knee room too, but you could check this more closely on http://www.seatguru.com
From personal experience there is not a great deal to choose - they both have bad days - my current pet hate for Virgin is that the entertainment system seems to fail on return leg of long trips. Perhaps it might be worth looking at some of the other airlines who ply that route - some have as much as 34 inch legroom as standard.
Loads of opinions on here.
http://www.airlinequality.com/index.htm
Got to the 'opinions' tab then 'airline feedback' and read loads of reports. Thing is that it is human nature to report a 'bad' flight rather than a 'good' flight.
http://www.airlinequality.com/index.htm
Got to the 'opinions' tab then 'airline feedback' and read loads of reports. Thing is that it is human nature to report a 'bad' flight rather than a 'good' flight.
I'd definitely go Virgin. Their in-flight entertainment is soo good! They have several music albums to listen to when you want, and unlike most airlines, you can choose when to watch each film or programme. They also have a much wider range of things to watch. They also have mini language tutorials if your mind wants to be stimulated! And video games with an onboard scoreboard!!
It all makes the flight that much more enjoyable and from teh moment you get on the plane you feel like they value your custom and have thought in depth about how to make teh flight as good as possible.
Not that BA is bad, it's better than many, just Virgin is EVEN better!
It all makes the flight that much more enjoyable and from teh moment you get on the plane you feel like they value your custom and have thought in depth about how to make teh flight as good as possible.
Not that BA is bad, it's better than many, just Virgin is EVEN better!
The food on Virgin flights I've been on certainly wasn't dire. Actually I was able to eat all of it (usually I just don't want to eat a whole meal of plane food!).
I can't remember the seats being particularly cramped or uncramped, nor the flight attendants disappearing. Maybe I'm just easier to please than others! I remember the inside of the plane being a lot more aesthetically pleasing than others, which just make me think of a whole lot of people being crammed into a small place. (Which effectively it is, but Virgin somehow didn't make me feel that way).
I can't remember the seats being particularly cramped or uncramped, nor the flight attendants disappearing. Maybe I'm just easier to please than others! I remember the inside of the plane being a lot more aesthetically pleasing than others, which just make me think of a whole lot of people being crammed into a small place. (Which effectively it is, but Virgin somehow didn't make me feel that way).
