V-Flyer

I don't know if this has been posted before but it seems that in Jan and Feb there is not a huge demand for Tokyo so they are cutting a lot of flights:

Please be advised that Virgin Atlantic will cancel VS900/901
Heathrow-Narita services
on the following dates exUK:

Monday 19th January 2009

Wednesday 21st January 2009

Monday 26th January 2009

Wednesday 28th January 2009

Tuesday 3rd February 2009

Thursday 5th February 2009

Thursday 12th February 2009

Tuesday 17th February 2009

Thursday 19th February 2009

Tuesday 24th February 2009

Not great for Pax!

Ed

There are also cancellations for NBO, LAX, PVG, HKG and ORD from Nov through to Feb. All part of keeping the airline profitable by cutting flights with very light loads.

Originally posted by virginboy747
There are also cancellations for NBO, LAX, PVG, HKG and ORD from Nov through to Feb. All part of keeping the airline profitable by cutting flights with very light loads.

There's going to be a lot of deep cleaning of aircraft this winter ...

At least there'll be spare a/c sitting about in case of tech issues etc..

I was wondering why there were no flights available on Wednesdays and some other days when I was booking my flight in the fare sale. It also explains why there is a fare sale to these destinations instead of the more traditional USA flights.

Originally posted by virginboy747
There are also cancellations for NBO, LAX, PVG, HKG and ORD from Nov through to Feb. All part of keeping the airline profitable by cutting flights with very light loads.

Except Christmas day, and few days in January around Chinese New Year (all as usual practice each year), I don't see any cancellation on PVG route at all.

For HKG route, we will have increase flights from Oct, and double capacity from December. There is no sign of cutting on this profitable route.

virginboy747, where are your source from? I can see why NRT been seasonal on load, can't find any reason for cut back on HKG/PVG, especially considering cargo load together.

Originally posted by Snow
virginboy747, where are your source from?

Just in case vb747 isn't back on the site any time soon, my money is on his source(s) being spot on. Horse's mouth, and all that.[;)]

Nick

Sorry for delay just got to Orlando. Right cancellations as follows:

NBO - OCT 28 30 / NOV 4 6 11 13 18 20 25 27 / JAN 27 30 / FEB 3 6 10 13 17 20

LAX VS 23 - JAN 19 20 21 26 27 28 / FEB 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 15 22 26 / MAR 1 8 15 22

HKG VS 238 - JAN 26 27 28 29

PVG - JAN 26 28 30

ORD - NOV 2 8 17 25 / JAN 13 17 20 24 31 / FEB 2 4 9 11 16 18 23 25 27 / MAR 2 4 9 11 16 18 23 25

And NRT you already have. This info from our internal website. Cancellations due to low forward bookings on these dates.

Thanks virginboy, sadly that's VS off my list for Chicago travel, with this level of cancellations it means VS is likely to miss some frequent business of ours on that route. I question the wisdom of VS starting it again when say something like LHR-LAS might fill up a plane.

Thank you very much virginboy747.

As expected, HKG/PVG only cancelled for Chinese New Year period. I was a bit worried, because already booked 4 return flights on these routes in the coming months (until April), and at least 2 more (maybe 5) to come, really don't want to see any reduction on these routes.

Many thanks.