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virgin lhr-lax service

PostPosted: 31 Dec 2003, 21:22
by mce4287
hey
can somebody please give me some info on the london heathrow to Los Angeles service.
Info, e.g

Lengths of flight there and back
aircraft used
review of leg room
route which the aircraft takes to get there, e.g over canada

many thanks

PostPosted: 01 Jan 2004, 01:19
by Pete
Welcome mce4287,

This is off the top of my head, but from memory;

Flight length is about 11 hours, a little less on the way back because of the jet stream.

Aircraft: 747 on the early flight, Airbus on the later - although these are sometimes swapped out depending on maintenance or loads.

Leg room: 31" in economy, 38" in Premium and 60" (I think!) in Upper. More if they have the suites fitted by the time you get on a flight.

The route goes out over Northern Ireland, over the southern tip of Greenland, down over Canada then into the USA. On most of the flights I've been on I've even had a great view of Las Vegas on the way down to LAX.

Pix.