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nikkisun
12-10-2005, 14:47
is there anyway of finding out if the plane you will be flying on will have the seatback games? last time we went to Florida (with Virgin) we had nintendo games on the flight out but not on the way back. (only just over 3 weeks now til we go and am sooooooo excited!!)

12-10-2005, 15:05
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by nikkisun
is there anyway of finding out if the plane you will be flying on will have the seatback games? last time we went to Florida (with Virgin) we had nintendo games on the flight out but not on the way back. (only just over 3 weeks now til we go and am sooooooo excited!!)
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If you check out my thread blow re Manchester aircraft rotation they use the same aircraft from Gatwick too[msnwink] The thread tells you which aircarft have games[msnwink]

Just to recap though...............

G-VLIP Hotlips (Nova)
G-VROM Barberella (Nova)
G-VROY Pretty Woman (Nova)
G-VROS English Rose (Nova)
G-VGAL Jersey Girl (Nova)
G-VAST Ladybird (Odyssey)
G-VTOP Virginia Plain (Odyssey)

For your info........

NOVA
During the summer of 2001 Virgin took delivery of five 747-400 aircraft (the cancelled Alitalia order), these were fitted with an Inflight Entertainment system new to Virgin Atlantic supplied by Thales. The new product, called 'Nova' has 8 channels of seat back entertainment consisting of:
Movie channels
2 kids channels (featuring a combination of movies and tv programming)
1 TV channel which works on a cycle basis showing a selection of current TV programming
14 audio channels ranging from soul to Classical music
Moving Skymap display which plots the aircraft's flight path
Bulkhead Telephone
The Nova system is on a selection of LGW 747-400. As these aircraft have Suite fit-outs, they get "Super Nova" (an enhanced version of Nova, but it still ain't V:Port).
Registration Aircraft Name
G-VGAL 747-443 Jersey Girl
G-VLIP 747-443 Hot Lips
G-VROM 747-443 Barbarella
G-VROS 747-443 English Rose
G-VROY 747-443 Pretty Woman

Odyssey is also a popular system, fitted on aircraft delivered between 1997 & 2002. It offers 10 movie channels, 8 TV channels, 2 kids channels, 14 audio channels and 35 Nintendo games.
Registration Aircraft Name
G-VAST Ladybird
G-VTOP Virginia Plain

Happy Flying