Christmas Fare?

Off to NYC on Saturday on VS45, returning Tuesday 23rd on VS46. Are we likely to by offered anything Christmassy in terms of food on the return flight? Flew to DXB on Christmas Day a couple of years ago and enjoyed a very passable turkey dinner, but guess it might be a day too early for that?

What do you think?

Have flown back from USA on 23rd before. No different apart from flight was empty! Might of changed in the past couple of years though.

Xmas dinner served 24th 25th 26th

Hot off the press from the Virgin Atlantic website (with minor editing):

VS will be offering passengers a tasty traditional Christmas dinner on all flights to, and from, the UK on 24th, 25th and 26th December.

The dinner will include turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, parsnips, pigs in blankets, and gravy.

Passengers travelling in UC will also receive festive chestnut soup as a starter and Christmas pudding with brandy butter, followed by afternoon tea of filo-topped warm mince pies, and Cornish clotted cream.

Passengers travelling in Y and PE from the UK will receive a mince pie and a special Lindt chocolate Santa to follow on from their main meal.

Looks like no mince pie, or Lindt chocolate Santa, if you are inbound in PE or Y?

Julie Southern, Chief Commercial Officer, commented:

'Christmas is a busy time for everyone and offering a traditional meal on board for all our passengers is a perfect way to start the festive season. I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year'.

Sprouts?

So the plane will be wind assisted?

I understand that the Cabin Crew will walk up and down the aisles gently swinging thuribles, following the meal service, in PE and Y.

No-one would dare to expel noxious gases in UC unless, of course, in the lavatory.

My New Year resolution, in advance for 2015, is to accidentally cut off the feet of any passenger in the UC cabin that deems it acceptable to remove their shoes and socks.

Trust me, a Band-Aid is not going to fix it.

Passengers travelling in Y and PE from the UK will receive a mince pie and a special Lindt chocolate Santa to follow on from their main meal.

I'll be really upset if I don't get a Lindt chocolate Santa in Upper!! I hate mince pies

Hot off the press from the Virgin Atlantic website (with minor editing):

VS will be offering passengers a tasty traditional Christmas dinner on all flights to, and from, the UK on 24th, 25th and 26th December.

The dinner will include turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, parsnips, pigs in blankets, and gravy.

Passengers travelling in UC will also receive festive chestnut soup as a starter and Christmas pudding with brandy butter, followed by afternoon tea of filo-topped warm mince pies, and Cornish clotted cream.

Passengers travelling in Y and PE from the UK will receive a mince pie and a special Lindt chocolate Santa to follow on from their main meal.

Looks like no mince pie, or Lindt chocolate Santa, if you are inbound in PE or Y?

Julie Southern, Chief Commercial Officer, commented:

'Christmas is a busy time for everyone and offering a traditional meal on board for all our passengers is a perfect way to start the festive season. I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year'.

Think you have quoted an article from 2012......Julie Southern left the airline in Spring 2013. That said, it won't be much different I am sure on 24th, 25th and 26th December.

Jon

Jon

No, that was on the VS website, last night.

I may, however, be in some kind of weird time warp as I've just had to extend my London stay, following the V-Flyer social, to accommodate an invitation to the Manic Street Preachers' concert on Wednesday.

The invitation includes a back-stage pass and after-performance drinks.

NV

[honey lamb]

Jon

No, that was on the VS website, last night.

NV

Well we all know about the VS website! the fact that it is quoting someone who left the company nearly two years ago says it all!

Having said that, flying out on VS on St. Stephen's Day a few years ago in PE we had a Christmas dinner.

honey lamb

Would that have been the 26th or the 27th of December, or the 9th of January?

I think the turkey might have been rather dry in January.

I'm cooking turkey to Thompson's recipe, again, this year.

Simply, the best turkey recipe, ever.

NV

[honey lamb]

honey lamb

Would that have been the 26th or the 27th of December, or the 9th of January?

I think the turkey might have been rather dry in January.

I'm cooking turkey to Thompson's recipe, again, this year.

Simply, the best turkey recipe, ever.

NV

Dec 26th = St Stephen
Dec 27th = St John
Jan 9th = No major saint's day

Saint Stephen, known as the martyr of Jerusalem, was the first Christian martyr.

He is believed to have been a Greek Jew who converted to Christianity and was a trusted, and honourable man who became one of the seven deacons responsible for delivery of alms to the poor.

His success angered the Jewish population, and he was accused of blasphemy and convicted by the Sanhedrin, not least because he accused the Jews of murdering Jesus. He was stoned to death, by a mob, at the Damascus Gate. It is believed that Stephen's martyrdom was witnessed by Saint Paul and that the events took place in, or around, 34CE. Stephen was originally buried to the North of Jerusalem but, later, his body was exhumed and re-buried near to the Damascus Gate.

Saint Stephen's Feast is celebrated by the Western Church on the 26th of December.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, using the Julian calendar, celebrates on the 27th of December.

Churches that use the Gregorian calendar, e.g. In Republika Srpska, celebrate Saint Stephen's Day on the 9th of January.

[honey lamb]

Saint Stephen, known as the martyr of Jerusalem, was the first Christian martyr.

He is believed to have been a Greek Jew who converted to Christianity and was a trusted, and honourable man who became one of the seven deacons responsible for delivery of alms to the poor.

His success angered the Jewish population, and he was accused of blasphemy and convicted by the Sanhedrin, not least because he accused the Jews of murdering Jesus. He was stoned to death, by a mob, at the Damascus Gate. It is believed that Stephen's martyrdom was witnessed by Saint Paul and that the events took place in, or around, 34CE. Stephen was originally buried to the North of Jerusalem but, later, his body was exhumed and re-buried near to the Damascus Gate.

Saint Stephen's Feast is celebrated by the Western Church on the 26th of December.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, using the Julian calendar, celebrates on the 27th of December.

Churches that use the Gregorian calendar, e.g. In Republika Srpska, celebrate Saint Stephen's Day on the 9th of January.

I bow to your knowledge

It is believed that Stephen's martyrdom was witnessed by Saint Paul

In the account of the martyrdom of St Stephen in the Acts of the Apostles it says that the witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of Saul and later that Saul entirely approved of the killing. Saul eventually became Paul

OK, folks, here endeth the sermon!

Back to Christmas dinner on Virgin Atlantic!

Not Christmas but in 2000 flying back in Y on Thanksgiving from ORD there was an announcement on the lines of

"In honour of Thanksgiving our chicken meal has been replaced with a turkey meal plus cranberry sauce"

Quickly followed by

"Unfortunately my colleagues now tell me that the turkey meals haven't been loaded but the chicken ones have. But we do still have the cranberry sauce."

Are we all talking about this one?

http://blog.virgin-atlantic.com/t5/Our- ... JByrYqsXaM

by Moderator Maxine December 2012 - last edited March 2013