As I wrote about on Sunday, Virgin Atlantic will be launching daily Boeing 787-9 flights between Seattle and London Heathrow in 2017. While it wasn't initially explicitly stated, my assumption was that Virgin Atlantic will be replacing Delta on the route, given Delta's large international presence in Seattle, and the fact that the two airlines…
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Delta & Virgin Atlantic are making some other route changes, with Delta taking over a DTW route and ATL route from Virgin and Virgin launching a flight from Manchester to JFK
Interesting what this might imply about the Delta-Alaska partnership because I feel it will be critical to the success of this route. Although a few low costs had success in PDX (Iceland, Condor) and LHR is PDX biggest European O&D so I might be wrong.
I looked on the virgin app this am while my kid was at swim lessons. 3/26 still shows sea>Lhr being a delta flight.
I don't see how PDX will be more successful than SEA. Looks like just a slot holding move.
I am just excited for the next Delta fare war and the possibility of cheap biz seats to Europe from the Pacific NW. 🙂
You would be surprised how many passengers fly AC PDX-YVR/YYC/YYZ-Europe. This should be interesting to see at what price point Delta will sell the tickets at.
Nonstop to London sounds appealing . Probably expensive in miles or cash . We'll find out .
You show a picture of Delta's 767 Business Class but do not explicitly give the aircraft type in the article. Is it a 767 or something newer and more interesting?
Damn. Wished it was BA or VA instead. Think BA would do much better, but could be wrong.
I don't know how Lucky can say Virgin's product is superior to Delta. That's just not factual. Sure, Virgin Atlantic's soft product is great--the marketing, the mystique--and is generally premium. But let's not forget that unless you're flying New York-London it doesn't really live up to expectations. Virgin Atlantic has zero premium services in its far-flung U.S. stations. The same is true in the U.K.; fly Atlanta-Manchester. There isn't a Virgin lounge in Manchester. Chauffeur service is limited or not available.
As for Portland, I think this makes sense and could see it expanding eventually to daily flights because of Nike and other business interests in Oregon. I actually enjoy flying out of Portland. I've done the Amsterdam flight a couple of times and have always had good luck redeeming a global upgrade certificate. The only issue I see is the rather horrible 5 p.m. departure time from Portland. Unless your body is on Eastern time, it will be difficult to get any sleep at 5 p.m. Pacific time.
any sense of what arrival terminal at LHR the pdx flights will use? Location of Delta sky club (and virgin!) locations have moved somewhat, I understand.