V-Flyer

We have booked on VS7 this year and noticed since we initially booked the front row of economy section has had the outer rows of seats all changed to extra legroom, does anyone know if Virgin are changing the seating plan as this is different from all seating plans I can find details of, as also the toilets are not showing either and when trying to talk with them its like hitting a brick wall LOL.

I have included a snippet from the seating plan for our flight to show what I mean, and thanks for any help

Welcome to V-Flyer, this has already been noticed and mentioned here.

No one really knows for sure yet though sorry as there's being nothing official from VS about this so far.

Thanks for that I have now just got off the phone to Virgin Atlantic, and according to the operator they are re-configuring the seating on the dreamliner to make more extra legroom seating but couldn't give much more info and have moved us into extra legroom seating for no extra charge due to the changes.

Be interesting to see what config G-VWOO has, which is the brand new Dreamliner delivered the other week? 2 more new Dreamliners are also due in Feb / March as well. Will these A/C come with this new config or not?

Seems a waste of time / effort if these brand new A/C have the existing seating config only to be re-confirgrued again later this year!

VS don't seem particularly good at stuff like this in all honestly. It all seems very unorganised as it means taking yet more A/C out of service to make these changes.

VS don't even seem to know what they are doing yet with the A330-200 A/C they have got from Air Berlin that are not even in service yet!

Just had a reply on twitter from Virgin and it's been confirmed finally that more extra legroom seats are being added.
https://twitter.com/VirginAtlantic/stat ... 9605656576

mitchja wrote:Be interesting to see what config G-VWOO has, which is the brand new Dreamliner delivered the other week? 2 more new Dreamliners are also due in Feb / March as well. Will these A/C come with this new config or not?

Seems a waste of time / effort if these brand new A/C have the existing seating config only to be re-confirgrued again later this year!

VS don't seem particularly good at stuff like this in all honestly. It all seems very unorganised as it means taking yet more A/C out of service to make these changes.

VS don't even seem to know what they are doing yet with the A330-200 A/C they have got from Air Berlin that are not even in service yet!

The reconfiguration won't take too long to do , especially in Economy, It'll be as simple as unclipping/removing a row of seats and then moving the rest of the rows along the track to the new seat pitch. Along with just putting the new seat covers on, it shouldn't take more than 2 days to do (even 1 day if they really put their heart to it).

G-VWOO has the current configuration as will the next two aircraft I'd imagine. It's probably more logical for VS to have the new 787s in the same configuration as the older models so the whole of the fleet can be reconfigured later in the year at the same time instead of having a few examples floating around in the system for several months.

vsa380 wrote:The reconfiguration won't take too long to do , especially in Economy, It'll be as simple as unclipping/removing a row of seats and then moving the rest of the rows along the track to the new seat pitch. Along with just putting the new seat covers on, it shouldn't take more than 2 days to do

I doubt it’s quite as simple as that. If you move a row of seats it’ll no longer be aligned with its PSU (overhead reading lights, air vents etc) or oxygen masks. They’ll all need reconfiguring as well.