VS074 MCO-MAN 7 MAY 13 (Economy)

This is a Trip Report from the Economy cabin

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Well, it was the end of almost 5 glorious weeks, we were looking forward to our return trip up in The Bubble in the same two seats we came out in on April 6. I had checked earlier that all was as I had reserved, it was,. However! Come 8-30pm, I went to online check in only to discover that my chosen seats had GONE!!! All of the Economy section was blanked out? We had been returned to the main deck on row 65 F&G

I know I had mentioned earlier that this flight had a light load, in that, 4 weeks ago most of the seats were unallocated. Well, it turned out that they were so light, only 124 souls including crew! That they closed all of The Bubble, no one, not even PE were up there!

The Virgin check in staff at MCO were very good, explaining that due to the light load, a figure of 74 economy was mentioned, that UC and PE would balance the weight of the Economy passengers , who were all seated al the rear of the aircraft.

Back to the flight, around 40 minutes late, with push back , due to late arrival of flight from
MAN. But actual loading took around 8 minutes. Drinks served, crew efficient and chatty, obviously happy that there evening was going to be stress free. Dinner of Caesar Salad, Chicken and Rice, enjoyable and was excellent, Gu lemon dessert, to die for ,glass of Merlot and coffee. Two films, and a couple of hours sleep before the new style breakfast was served, Cinnamon muffin, with oat and honey cereal bar, orange juice and tea, much better than the cooked breakfast previously offered, just not the best time for a hot breakfast

Landing at MAN was delayed for 25 minutes due to glass on runway!! But, touched down at 10-25am. Just one hour later than scheduled, everybody exited in around 5 minutes, customs and immigration was quiet, luggage in 10 minutes and train home at 11-00am.

All in all, flying economy in the newly refurbished 747 could not be faulted, the seating in The Bubble on our outward trip was row 80, no problems and on our return we took 61H&K, after requesting a move from row 65, plenty of room all around with not having the 3rd seat. Only slight drawback on seating was the IFE Box narrowed foot room on
61H.

Roll on November when we go back to PE.

Bad luck with the bubble but sounds like a good flight otherwise.

oh blimey geoff -did you leave already ...and we never got out on the boat..so sorry, we had one of the dogs had to go up to Tampa for surgery which kinda took up a lot of the past 2 weeks...............ah well it will have to be Nov..


BTW we finally got our green card approval this week

Thanks for the TR! I do love an empty plane, take it you had your own lie flat bed?!

I know it is a factor but sometimes the "balancing of aircraft" can be very frustrating and I wonder if it often used for cover up of them just wanting to making life easier..... nothing wrong in that mind !

Nothing like an empty aircraft to make those that paid premium prices just a little bit jealous ok maybe not

Had one of these light loads last year and, although there was a slight dissapointment of not getting your preferred seats, having 4 seats to sleep in was EPIC

Thaks for the TR