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Virgin Atlantic is investigating allegations that its staff posted rude comments on Facebook about the airline's passengers and its safety standards. The comments, which as far as we can see have been pulled, were about flights out of Gatwick and referred to passengers as "chavs". Virgin flies five Boeing 747s from Gatwick. …
"Virgin probes Facebook safety, chav claims"
I was expecting an article about a burberry-wearing customer of Virgin Media claiming he had insider information about VM preparing a report on how FakeBook is a nest of snakes.
I think I was about as wrong as it's possible to be without working for the Gov.
Perhaps, if Virgin view their customers as 'chavs', they should refit their fleet to make them feel at home.
Burberry pattern upholstery.
Onboard McDonalds franchise.
Plenty of cheap larger and lambrini on tap.
Stewards kitted out in Burberry and Kappa with plenty of cheap gold plated bling.
Half finished paint job over a number of badly fitted body kits.
Lots of little blue lights (inside and out).
Nicked stereo in every seat-back.
Make sure the plane isn't insured and doesn't have a current airworthiness certificate.
Pilot should be completely unqualified. Preferably just let one of the passenger TWOC the plane.
Theres something very wrong if Virgin are ignoring concerns by its staff about safety, instead of investigating the problems, they give the staff diciplinary action for voicing the concerns to the public.
Anyone got the number for the Health and Safety executive?
I have flown with Virgin on several occasions and IME, it's the chavs that make the plane the state that it is. I'm usually one of the last off - I'll still beat my bags to the baggage carosel anyway- and I regularly see the magazines, food wrappers and food amongst the detritus scattered over the floor and seats in the cabin. That's one of the reasons I go left or upstairs when I get on now.
I used to deep-clean a Virgin Atlantic stewardess.........she was a very dirty girl though! Woof!
Anyway, I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that Virgin ain't the carin' sharin' fun-lovin' firm it tries to project out to the population. Never liked that Branson fellow, far too beardy for my liking. Reminds me of one of those Danish fellows, all flares and the whiff of the lavendar about them, and their roles in those special interest films you could get from the video shop. Before the Internet made it all too accessible and a lot less fun to get yer hands on.
Sorry, what was the question again?
I was severely disappointed, both ways (different planes). They both were really showing their age, the entertainment sucks, and yes, they do already have chavvy patterned seats. On the way back, the seats didn't even have those side-rests most have these days (made it harder to get to sleep on the long flight from Las Vegas)
We flew BA to New York and the flight/airplane was so much better. There doesn't seem to be much difference in price, so I doubt I'd ever intentionally fly Virgin again.