V-Flyer

The name of VS short-haul is Virgin Atlantic Little Red.

Marketing begins tomorrow!

Thanks for the Little Red Heads up. 8D B)
y) y)

Nick

I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Hoping not to be gobbled up by the Big Bad Wolf?

Silver Fox wrote:I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Oh no it won't. I lazily googled pinky while trying to search for "pinky and the brain". All I can say is that I got more than I expected

Silver Fox wrote:I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Might bring some new custom though... :w

Tinuks wrote:

Silver Fox wrote:I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Oh no it won't. I lazily googled pinky while trying to search for "pinky and the brain". All I can say is that I got more than I expected

Ha ha ha ha ha, go ahead google little red virgin... nothing too ranchy appears on the first page of results, lots of stuff from Virgin Media and VS little red book (had forgotten about that)

Did you know that Little Red Riding Hood fits into genre horror by the way ?| ?|

pjh wrote:

Silver Fox wrote:I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Might bring some new custom though... :w

... and now watch as, one by one, we enter a certain register..

joeyc wrote:

Tinuks wrote:

Silver Fox wrote:I am not entirely sure that Goooooogling "little red virgin" would be a good idea - or maybe it would !

Oh no it won't. I lazily googled pinky while trying to search for "pinky and the brain". All I can say is that I got more than I expected

Ha ha ha ha ha, go ahead google little red virgin... nothing too ranchy appears on the first page of results, lots of stuff from Virgin Media and VS little red book (had forgotten about that)

Did you know that Little Red Riding Hood fits into genre horror by the way ?| ?|

It's one of the Grimms fairy tales isn't it?

Tinuks wrote:

joeyc wrote:
Did you know that Little Red Riding Hood fits into genre horror by the way ?| ?|

It's one of the Grimms fairy tales isn't it?

Yes and they were meant to be horror stories !

And by the looks of this thread the new offshoot is already taking after big sister in changing the schedules and poor communication n( n(

tontybear wrote:

Tinuks wrote:

joeyc wrote:
Did you know that Little Red Riding Hood fits into genre horror by the way ?| ?|

It's one of the Grimms fairy tales isn't it?

Yes and they were meant to be horror stories !

And by the looks of this thread the new offshoot is already taking after big sister in changing the schedules and poor communication n( n(

How is it poor communication if you're aware of the changes?

Schedules have been aligned to better meet long haul flights which is the whole reason VS are launching Little Red in the first place.

There are now more details online

Here: http://m.marketingweek.co.uk/4005865.ar ... te=enabled

StillRedHot wrote:How is it poor communication if you're aware of the changes?

Schedules have been aligned to better meet long haul flights which is the whole reason VS are launching Little Red in the first place.

It is poor communication when your customer is apparently notgiven an explanation (in plain English and not marketing bo@@ocks) the reason for the change.

tontybear wrote:

StillRedHot wrote:How is it poor communication if you're aware of the changes?

Schedules have been aligned to better meet long haul flights which is the whole reason VS are launching Little Red in the first place.

It is poor communication when your customer is apparently notgiven an explanation (in plain English and not marketing bo@@ocks) the reason for the change.

Well the reason is to be better aligned with the long haul flights. Schedules change all the time and there is not really the need for an explanation other than that?

There's now a 'Little Red' section of the VS website which has much more info for each of the new routes - including tables of times and how they connect with the long haul flights.

StillRedHot wrote:Well the reason is to be better aligned with the long haul flights. Schedules change all the time and there is not really the need for an explanation other than that?

I think Tonty was saying that the person he was referring to wasn't even told that explanation. Just because staff know the reason doesn't mean they are all telling passengers when needed.

I cant quite see how it makes them better aligned to the LH routes as a whole, but rather a select few maybe.

Is it just me or is the little red section of the VS site just badly put together, for example on the main page it says '3' daily flights to MAN when there are four, then in the Manchester section it has a table showing MAN to rest of the world connections then rest of the world to MAN which is exactly the same ...

If I can see this, why-oh-why-oh-why can't VS's people spot the errors before making the pages live :0 .

Agree. Another example, under Baggage Information there is nothing about carry-on limits. And what I mean is they just say "it is the same as long haul" - just put the number in there for goodness sake ! (6kg btw, and one reason why I won't use them).

Does anyone know how many planes the Little Red "fleet" will have ?

thanks

David

StillRedHot wrote:Schedules change all the time and there is not really the need for an explanation other than that?

With respect, though, over the past few months we've seen an almost daily series of threads from people whose flights have been moved around, sometimes by hours, sometimes by days. In some cases the inconvenience has been considerable and the impression is given, rightly or wrongly, that the airline is not particularly sympathetic to the passengers' plight.

David wrote:Does anyone know how many planes the Little Red "fleet" will have ?

thanks

David

3 -- info at the bottom of the VS web page devoted to Little Red.

Silver Fox wrote:Agree. Another example, under Baggage Information there is nothing about carry-on limits. And what I mean is they just say "it is the same as long haul" - just put the number in there for goodness sake ! (6kg btw, and one reason why I won't use them).

There are plans in place to increase the carry on baggage limit.

Hamster wrote:

StillRedHot wrote:Well the reason is to be better aligned with the long haul flights. Schedules change all the time and there is not really the need for an explanation other than that?

I think Tonty was saying that the person he was referring to wasn't even told that explanation. Just because staff know the reason doesn't mean they are all telling passengers when needed.

I cant quite see how it makes them better aligned to the LH routes as a whole, but rather a select few maybe.

I'm sorry, but surely this is common sense? VS - or any other airline - won't just move flight schedules to inconvenience people on purpose.

at240 wrote:

David wrote:Does anyone know how many planes the Little Red "fleet" will have ?

thanks

David

3 -- info at the bottom of the VS web page devoted to Little Red.

Another aircraft has been added making the total 4 - the new one will be 'Rosie Lee'

at240 wrote:

David wrote:Does anyone know how many planes the Little Red "fleet" will have ?

thanks

David

3 -- info at the bottom of the VS web page devoted to Little Red.

That's what I thought, but I don't think the scheduling works with 3 planes.

EDI - LHR departs 9.05

LHR - ABZ departs 9.30

LHR - MAN departs 9.30

LHR - EDI departs 9.10

?| maybe it's too early in the morning for these things . lol

David

EDIT for StillRedHot's post - ahh