V-Flyer

I was wondering if anyone had any information regarding the seating layout of the old/original Virgin Fleet (mid to late 90s)...
I travelled loads between BOS and LHR and seem to remember that it was very rare that two planes had the same seating layout. PE on Boston Belle I remember being up front in the nose, Maiden Voyager had PE behind a bulkhead, Scarlet lady's PE section started right in front of an exit door... Others had PE upstairs...

This must have been a nightmare for selling and assigning seats without a uniformed seating layout across the fleet. Does anyone know if there was any rhyme or reason to this? Or was it just because Virgin was purchasing one-off second hand airframes as they could? I'd be very interested if anyone had any information on the seating layout of those early Virgin aircraft... I even think I remember Virgin operating a twin-engine aircraft at some point, could that be right?

I remember travelling on the 747-200 morning glory to Miami mid 90's had the same layout as the 747-400 at the time, had been on Tinkerbelle the year before just different seats and entertainment system

The old 747 fleet was made up of ex Qantas, Singapore & Air New Zealand metal amongst others.

Details of past and present VS 747's can be found here.
http://www.planespotters.net/Production ... Status=all

Seem to remember VMIA was in a similar config to the LHR config 4 now - minus the economy upstairs.

The LHR 747s used to have UC/PE in the Upper Deck until they converted it all the UC and then to its current configuration of UC/Economy

VS have always different configs for LGW/MAN and LHR.

The VS LHR-based 747-200 I flew on to & from YYZ even though the flights op'ed from LGW (G-VIBE Dancing Queen and G-VSSS Island Lady) had J2000 seats in the nose section with PE behind it (I was W going and J coming back) - similar to how the LGW 744 config is like now. Never ventured up the spiral stair case to the upper deck though so no idea what was up there.

I also remember G-VRUM Calypso Queen (LGW/MAN based 742) having PE in the nose section (my PE seat was 8H). Again no idea what was on the upper deck though. I think J was up there as that's what seats VH used to sell as 'Club Orlando' from MAN (you got a J seat but a W service)

The VS twin engine A/C operated the ATH route which offered just economy and business class.