This is a Trip Report from the Economy cabin
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We were on Cosmic Girl for the 7hr or so hop over the pond. Due to work on the terminal/gate/area we were bussed around to the plane - which gave a cracking panoramic of the plane & superb photo-op. Cursed myself when I realised I didnt have camera on me.
Took an age to take off due to the volume of traffic - didnt note how long, but my sister who was going to JFK with BA 20mins before us, reckoned they were 20-30mins late, so figured we mustve been too.
With a mixture of reviews, had finally plumped for the 'couples seats' up the back of economy. Whilst the seats themselves were great - the same couldnt be said for the other passengers! Appeared to be a family of 7/8 kids (oldest about 14/15) heading to the US... baby cried 1/3 of the way & the 2 kids sat in front had the occasional urge to recline chair for 30mins , then straighten it up - given my height, this didnt help in trying to view the v-port screen.
As for legroom - I found it not to bad on this flight, so much so I didnt have to use the aisle to stretch my legs out into - dont know how other seats compared, but 62c was pretty decent. Wife in 62a(or b?) had less room due to IFE box - but it didnt restrict her too much, when she wanted to stretch a little she used the extra room @ side of chair in front.
V-Port ... took nearly an hour before it was working after take off. After 15-20mins of checking it out, went with the movie 'Firewall' and that was me for the next hour & a half.
Food - snack (Worcester Sauce flavour pretzels I believe) tasty. Dinner - choice of Chicken / Sausage & Mash / Veg dish... Wife & I both had the chicken & it was hot, tasty & quite well presented - was half way through before realising wife had camera on her - so sadly no pics of anything before the hotel [:I] - cursed myself again LOL.
Only disappointing thing was being offered only one glass of wine. Whether staff were simply busy (plane was very full - we were almost finished our meals before some further forward in Y had been served!)
An ice-cream was also served (cant remember at what time - before the afternoon snack I think).
Afternoon snack - the shortbread rumours are true! Was offered chocolate fudge brownie or shortbread. Being from the land of shortbread, I plumped for the brownie... Mmmm [y]!
Coffee/Tea followed very soon after & right enough served in a cardboard cup - however I cant see pax being allowed to remove these from plane. These were served well before landing & before descent into JFK began the FAs had been round twice clearing everything away. Time wise, if you were de-planing with your coffee youd have a cold cuppa!
Touchdown was smooth , drawback of row 62 was waiting to deplane - however made up for this by walking past 2/3s of Y enroute to immigration.
Was through immigration very quickly too [^]. Picked up bags, walked out to the waiting area 2mins later my sister appeared via airtrain from T7 & cab shared into Manhattan.
All in all - possibly the best flight Ive had. Had a lot of expectations of Virgin & they didnt let me down anywhere. Superb from start to finish.
VPort - excellent! Worked great all flight (although someone in both row 60 & 61 required theirs to be reset mid-flight). I just watched the one movie & played a few games etc. Happy to report I twice won $1m, a few games of chess & revised a few phrases of some foreign languages. IFE & great service on board certainly made this the best flight Ive had across the pond - seemed like the shortest flight too!
