Virgin Atlantic A350-1000 New UPPER CLASS Review: London to New York!

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Date of Travel: 01 NOV 2019
Airline: Virgin Atlantic
Livery: Standard Virgin Atlantic livery
Route: LHR-JFK
Aircraft: Airbus A350-1000 XWB
Flight Number: VS 137
Miles: 3448
Airborne time: 7h35m

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[alexconway]

Paul - as for your question at 15:07 - my dad works with the customer experience department at Virgin Atlantic as a consultant, and it transpires that they test run menus on the Manchester/Gatwick to America flights before they send them to Heathrow to iron out any issues - these are leisure routes so if they mess up an item they can fix it before rotating the menu onto Heathrow - they want the best food possible for their high paying business customers and would rather have a menu-related issue on a leisure route where people are less likely to complain. Futhermore, the menus change once every 2 months, with LHR getting the MAN/LGW menu once customer feedback is ascertained from Manchester and Gatwick.

[kylejones]

Study for term paper or watch Paul fly on another plane? The paper can wait 😂

[gerardacronin]

Re: afternoon tea: I flew From London Gatwick to Calgary on Westjet’s Dreamliner on October 15th. I was in Premium Economy. We had afternoon tea also, complete with scones and clotted cream, and cucumber sandwiches.

[alexisclarke]

The Virgin Atlantic A35K is on of my favorites. Two of them fly over my house everyday and I love it!

[lawrenceortega]

You were absolutely correct about your comment on the seats fixtures. The seats aren’t aging well. We just flew on Flight 10 to LHR and they are quickly showing their age. The service was great, but we weren’t sold on the seats.

[ollietreg]

I'm very proud of how far virgin have come, they have really stepped up their game and having now travelled multiple times on their A350 its fantastic

[edwinleslie]

I'm a Brit living in Austria and I got bored flying back to (A lot) London to see family and friends. It became a bit like getting on a bus to go to work. Then I saw you doing a train journey. Bing! A new outlook Train Travel. And not just from Austria to the UK. So many thanks for the new outlook. 😎

[diannewi]

Ooh, the covered drive-up check-in! Wowza! And the afternoon tea, big thumbs up. Thanks for another excellent review.

[chemicalbrucey]

I flew with VA from London to Sydney about 10 years ago, my dad worked for the company for years and as we were moving to Australia it was a special flight so he decided to sweet talk the girl at the check in desk and we got upgraded to 2 1st class seats and 2 business, my fondest memory is the cabin crew and how friendly they are, also the way they kept asking me if i wanted more food (wish was genuinely tasty) they are also so down to earth and feel like they are having a chat because they want to and enjoy it, not because they are getting paid to and feel obliged to listen to you ramble

[jarrodlewis]

My family used the Virgin Upper Class Entrance last Christmas. It was a very nice experience!

[nevillemignot]

Paul, i do watch all of your vid's, as after having a couple of strokes i find it very hard to travel any more, and i do love to travel via my computer and vlogs like yours keep 'em coming, thanks and cheers!!

[joansmith]

I'm, gobsmacked by the luxury of all this. How I wish I was there with you!! Thanks Paul.

[damnimloomin]

I think the best part was watching them blow your mind with the tea service 😂 you were shook by that macaroon

[steveparkinson]

When ur careers advisor at school said "so Paul, wot do u want to do when u grow up??"... Ur vids are superb, thx very much, you show me and loads others another side of life. Once again, thank you.

[nickaston]

Great video, thank you. I was glad to see that there is alcohol free (non alcoholic) beer served on board, and Beck's as well! I hope more airlines will start to offer alcohol free beers and wines.

[Indecisive]

Ha Paul! Just spotted you at AMS airport! I wanted to say hi but you were filming so I stopped last minute! It was after security! Have a good one today!

[indianairlines]

Thanks very much for your review. Very nicely narrated. Very entertaining. Good to see Virgin's got a new biz product, as the current one leaves a lot to be desired.

[kzayas]

Well Paul, clouds can be perverts sometimes.

[keiming]

Finally a decent business class seat for Virgin Atlantic

[fb]

You’ll be pleased to know that they’ve now changed the tray tables! 🏆