Originally Posted by
G-BOAC
Just seen the guy who was sitting behind me on last night's flight here too - clearly I'm not the only one who moved over!
Not the only one. One of 12, in fact. One of 12 people moved by MY who represented the
entire passenger load on VS146
This may well go down on my list as the best flight of the year when I get around to thinking about
Raffles's thread properly...there is something extremely cool about rattling around an A346 with 12 passengers and 20 crew! Now
that is a service ratio
And a big ^ to the crew too, who didn't treat us as second class citizens at all - they kept announcing it as 'our special service to London Heathrow for our MAXjet passengers' and were chatty and kept the booze flowing. Delightful bunch! In fact, it was like a big (well, small!) party until we all crashed out
Note to self: 3hrs sleep, even with something bigger than Wee Willie's, will not actually sober you up
(FWIW, the bed was very comfy and made for you like in BA F ^ The downside being that unlike CW or F, you must be out of it to transform it to a bed - and of course when my movie ended and I wanted to sleep, we hit turbulence and I had to wait 20mins! The angle/lack of window thing didn't bother me much just like rear-facing CW seats don't. Overall, a very nice product IMHO. Better than any 777/747 Lower Deck seat but for me personally, 64K (and only 64K really) still beats it because you still have more space.).
Apparently, the flight was going to be ferryed back LHR empty but VS were happy to rebook the MY pax. Thank God they did too - someone's luck is clearly not in at MAXjet rifght now
I just checked MY100 from yesterday and it's still not left again
Scheduled for a 09:00 departure today, 21:45 arrival at STN. That's
really bad luck considering it was a second 767, not even the first one which went tech originally.
So for me at least, this ended extremely well - I got to sample (and enjoy!) two Business products I'd not used before, for a bargain price plus the 'cost' of an extra day spent working in a hotel instead of working at home. I count myself very lucky I was endorsed over to VS!
I may do a trip report since these were both new airlines to me...if I get time to cover it in the kind of detail I like