Since the VS/DL tie-up, I'd been looking for an opportunity to fly the new(ish) Delta Business Elite LHR-JFK flight.
And a genuine reason to be in Brussels allowed me to book a very reasonably priced ticket from BRU, changing in LHR, to JFK (£1,350 return). I bought this as one ticket direct from Virgin Atlantic, so that I could earn miles on my VS credit card. I flew with hand luggage only.
[The LHR-JFK leg on VS has its own Trip Report here: http://v-flyer.com/forum/index.php?f=21 ... =viewtopic]
The BRU-LHR leg was in BA Club Europe. Not much to write home about: usual average BA Galleries lounge at BRU (self help bar, crisps, cold meats and cheeses). Club Europe gets you fast track access through the airport.
If you've got Priority Pass and you get bored with Galleries, you can go across the hallway to the Diamond Lounge for, er, exactly the same thing (food identical, but slightly better wine in the BA lounge, slightly better beer in the Diamond lounge)! I assume many of these lounges subcontract to local providers for their maintenance, which explains this phenomenon.
The flight itself (45 minutes) was speedy with good service. Plenty of booze, and a strangely excellent fresh chicken salad meal was served (I have had appalling food on short hop BA Club Europe flights before).
I was given very accurate advice on how to transfer from T5 where our flight arrived to T3 for the Delta flight to JFK.
And a genuine reason to be in Brussels allowed me to book a very reasonably priced ticket from BRU, changing in LHR, to JFK (£1,350 return). I bought this as one ticket direct from Virgin Atlantic, so that I could earn miles on my VS credit card. I flew with hand luggage only.
[The LHR-JFK leg on VS has its own Trip Report here: http://v-flyer.com/forum/index.php?f=21 ... =viewtopic]
The BRU-LHR leg was in BA Club Europe. Not much to write home about: usual average BA Galleries lounge at BRU (self help bar, crisps, cold meats and cheeses). Club Europe gets you fast track access through the airport.
If you've got Priority Pass and you get bored with Galleries, you can go across the hallway to the Diamond Lounge for, er, exactly the same thing (food identical, but slightly better wine in the BA lounge, slightly better beer in the Diamond lounge)! I assume many of these lounges subcontract to local providers for their maintenance, which explains this phenomenon.
The flight itself (45 minutes) was speedy with good service. Plenty of booze, and a strangely excellent fresh chicken salad meal was served (I have had appalling food on short hop BA Club Europe flights before).
I was given very accurate advice on how to transfer from T5 where our flight arrived to T3 for the Delta flight to JFK.