Might Be Flying BMI Longhaul!

Well The Virgin Flight has come down to £1252 and now we’ve booked it so im off with Virgin Atlantic, anyone got any good seat tips for us in economy as we are hoping to pre-book the seats (Boeing 747-400)

Jon

I flew on them last year Manchester-Washington-New Orleans, then return Las Vegas-Chicago-Manchester. Flew in their “new economy”, pretty good I thought.

Hi John,
We done LGW-SAN ( Orlando Sanford not MCO ) last year on a MyTravel A330, and it was one of the best flights we have done to Florida, plenty of room even in Economy, and still had happy kids after 9 1/2 hrs. Not sure what BMI is like to US, personally i have always been put off by the indirect flights as didnt fancy the extra time onboard.

So A330 gets thumbs up for me, but still does not beat the flight deck visit on a Virgin 747 200 on our 1st trip in 2000, guess thats all history, not to be repeated now 🙁

I’m flying bmi to ORD in July, and i am looking forward to it actually. Only have good memories of WWBB, but of course, this is bmi so things could change asap. But i only have good things to say about their long-haul product

i dont really want to go on an B767 the 757 looks disgusting.

757 is long gone back to the frozen wastes of the north. Plans for the 767 are not definitely confirmed AFAIK – some say MAN-Caribbean and MAN-LAS, some say it’ll do one or two days a week on MAN-ORD on the two days a week LAS operates (whilst the A330 does LAS), some say its going onto the Saudi routes from LHR. I’ve seen nothing confirmed yet.

Andy

ah crap charging?!? lol and i dont really want to go on an B767 the 757 looks disgusting. and im not to sure about the Boeing 767 isnt it suppose to cover the Carribean flights? (hope so) Well my fav aircraft is the A330-200 and ive flew one in a real life simulator and got put in Manchester Airports ‘Plane Talk’ magazine back in October 2005. (in case anyone has it)

Jon

Should be fine, the A330 is a nice a/c in BMI config, seat back IFE (as does VS on the 744) including forward/downward cameras, although no VOD. Service and food is fine, just be aware that BMI will be charging for alcoholic drinks in steerage from January 1st.

Andy

So sorry to go off topic on your thread, but could someone tell me about that 763 bmi were apparently bringing into MAN services? Thanks in advance.