V-Flyer

The change to our November MAN – ATL flight time now means that our connecting flight departs before we will arrive in the US.

I will need to contact VS Customer services to rebook the connecting flight , would it be better to do so now or hold off a little to see if an earlier transatlantic flight is scheduled at some point?
If we have to fly out the following day can I expected Virgin to pick up some or all of the cost of a night in an hotel?

As mentioned elsewhere the idea of a late arrival into a hub airport seems illogical . I seem to recall that on a recent flight into ATL it was announced that there were something like passengers on board of which 225 were connecting.

Do it as soon as. You are not going to have many options from MAN though so you may have to go via LHR instead.

I have been affected by this too. I rang yesterday and the lady was very helpful - changing my connection to RSW and also changing my connection on the way home to avoid a 7 hour wait in Atlanta.
If this had not been resolved, I would have been really annoyed - once again early bookers are penalised by schedule changes.
I agree with earlier comments that such a late flight into a hub airport is ridiculous.

Maybe we all need to write to Crawley although it probably won't make any difference. Who would be the best recipient?

I moaned on Twitter last night and this was the response:
Hi Jane, I'm sorry to hear that our schedule change has caused you so much trouble! I don't have a specific reason for the change, I can only apologise that this has had such an impact on your journey. Sometimes flight changes have to be made to accommodate airport requests ^DH

Having made both a call to Customer Services and spending 2 hours texting backwards and forwards looking at the very limited options I have managed to rebook the onward flight to depart ATL (to LIT) at 22:35!

My preferred option would have been to stay overnight in ATL and catch a flight out the following morning. This option was not however available as despite there being three earlier flights the earliest option to leave ATL i was given was 4:30pm

Why would this be, both CS agents were adamant they could not even see the earlier flights even though i could on the Delta website?

On a more positive note I did manage to move the return flight to ATL back a few hours to avoid a lengthy stop over.