LHR-JNB Plane Refits

Hi All...

In December (on the 23rd) I will be flying to Johannesburg on VS601 from Heathrow. As much as I love Virgin, I was less than impressed with the flight from Johannesburg in April due to the archaic equipment on board (particularly after flying SAA which has a superb system onboard)

Being a new user to to site (this is my first post), I'm getting lost trying to figure out which plane will be servicing my return flight.

Could any of you kind V-Flyers assist?

Thanks in advance...

Welcome to V-Flyer, sstolp;)
If you look here you'll see you currently have a 95% chance of being on a A340-300 with the Arcadia IFE system. However Virgin have started to refit some of their 340's with the new UCS so this could change by December

Originally posted by Jonathan
...you currently have a 95% chance of being on a A340-300 with the Arcadia IFE system.

You have a very high chance of a A340-300 but the IFE system varies on the 343 - so you probably have a better chance of Odyssey since by then only 2 or 3 of the 7 or 8 343s will have Arcadia.

Your chances of Odyssey are further improved as 4 aircraft have more powerful engines that are favoured on the JNB route and 3 of these are Odyssey a/c. Also I would imagine the UCS a/c will also be favoured on this route and these are all Odyssey.

You do not mention which class you are flying but obviously with UCS there is a huge difference at the front. The rest of the aircraft is certainly not the best but hardly 'archaic'.

Phil (Buffy)