St Lucia G-VNYC

Uptown Girl still in st Lucia after 21 days - looks like damage was worse than early estimates. Local news update Here: http://www.stlucianewsonline.com/virgin ... estigated/ with some interesting comments...

[Darren Wheeler]

Hampered by the lack of suitable facilities?
Ferry flight to the US for additional repairs before returning to service?

Uptown Girl still at St Lucia - 17th Jan.
Video from helicopter landing at UVF on 29th Dec. http://vimeo.com/84353238
Bit slow to load but give it time!
Note baggage containers and mud/debris still on taxiways from 0.36 and g-vnyc near the end on parking bay 1

Looks like Uptown Girl is coming home.....a positioning flight back to LGW is showing leaving St Lucia on Monday afternoon y)

Jon

Well spotted. Did think about arranging a welcome home party, but 4.10am is a little early for me .. Wonder if she will be pressed straight back to service or require more attention.

Been on her a couple of times but not sure I would fancy that trip back to be honest

Don't think there will be many if any fare payers on board, just a repositioning flight to LGW for final checking. Not sure I would volunteer for the first fully loaded landing though, but I suppose if the wheels were going to come off it would have done so at UVF. I'm sure it will have been inspected to death during the last three weeks.