Goodbye Tinkerbelle

Nice article on the VS blog with video and some stats

In service for 23 years but only 3198 flights, so it averaged 140 flights per year? That sounds incredibly low considering in the same graphic it says the most popular destination was NYC and you'd get two flights within 24 hours. Either those stats are not correct or 'holiday flights' might be referring to the B&S routes?!

[mitchja]

The LHR>LGW refit was done around April 2016 so it does look like VS are only very roughly counting flights since the refit and not her LHR flights.

Also according to the CAA G-INFO datebase G-VBIG has flown 107,717 hours by 23rd May 2019 so the VS hours figure is approximately her total LHR+LGW/MAN etc. flying hours.