Is the Virgin V-Port on the Gatwick flights?

[Pudders]

Hi All,

Just been on the VA site and they are heavily plugging their new Virgin "vport" entertainment system. Does anyone know if these are rolled out on all the VA flights from Gatwick?

As far as I know there is not V Port on the Orlando route yet, it's still as listed below............

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)
G-VXLG Ruby Tuesday (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
G-VXLG Ruby Tuesday

All the above aircraft are most commonly used on the Orlando route.

V Port aircraft are as follows...........

The V:Port system is on all A340-600 series and certain 747-400 aircraft.

Registration Aircraft Name
G-VATL A340-642 Miss Kitty
G-VFOX A340-642 Silver Lady
G-VOGE A340-642 Cover Girl
G-VEIL A340-642 Queen Of The Skies
G-VGOA A340-642 Indian Princess
G-VMEG A340-642 Mystic Maiden
G-VSHY A340-642 Madam Butterfly
G-VXXL A380-800 Virgin Lady
G-VSSH A340-642 Sweet Dreamer
G-VNAP A340-642 Sleeping Beauty
G-VGAS A340-642 Varga Girl
G-VWKD A340-642 Miss Behavin
G-VRED A340-642 Scarlet Lady
G-VWIN A340-642 Lady Luck
G-VFIT A340-642 Dancing Queen
G-VFIZ A340-642 Bubbles
G-VBLU A340-642 Soul Sister
G-VYOU A340-642 Emmeline Heaney
G-VWOW 747-41R Cosmic Girl
G-VROC 747-41R Mustang Sally
G-VBIG 747-4Q8 Tinker Belle
G-VFAB 747-4Q8 Lady Penelope
G-VHOT 747-4Q8 Tubular Belle
G-VWEB A340-642 Surfer Girl
G-VBUG A340-642 Lady Bird

V:Port

This system is onboard 747-400s and A340-600s. It offers Video on Demand where passengers can watch or listen to what they want and can start, pause or rewind their chosen movie, TV show or CD. What it features:
10.4 inch screen in Upper Class
9 inch screen in Premium Economy / Economy
300 hours of Video on Demand content
14 channels of Audio on Demand and a jukebox with over 45 CDs ranging from Chopin to Elvis Presley to PJ Harvey. Passengers can listen to an entire CD or just an individual track.
A selection of audio books
15 computer games, of which 3 are multi-player and one, Battlemail Kung-fu, has been developed exclusively for Virgin
A Quick Find facility that allows passengers to look for films starring their favourite movie star, comedy shows or language programming
A dedicated Kid’s Zone that has it’s own menus and contains programming suitable for children and a parental block
The system will allows passengers to send emails and SMS messages.
IMap is a brand new fully interactive map application - not only can passengers track their flight, but they can also roam around the world, zoom in on different destinations and points of interest.
Email and Intranet was promised as "coming soon" in 2003, but has yet to materialise.

[brizzle]

We flew out on Barbarella and it had the Nova as stated above.
We flew back, just, on Virginia Plain and again as stated above had the Odyssey system.
I must admit VP was very tired looking on the way back but was pretty empty so we ended up with 4 rows between the 6 of us, youngest two slept all the way, baby in skycot, daughter across 3 seats. Crew were very good though but they did have a lot less passengers to deal with...

IMO Virgin need to up their game a bit on the planes with First Choice being way ahead in terms of IFE, comfort, legroom etc...not that Virgin are bad as such just falling behind.

[Katys Grandad]

I get the impression that Virgin take Orlando passengers for granted and pay most attention to routes where they think they can attract high fare business passengers. I'm not surprised that their top IFE systems are on other routes.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
I get the impression that Virgin take Orlando passengers for granted and pay most attention to routes where they think they can attract high fare business passengers. I'm not surprised that their top IFE systems are on other routes.
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Phil you are absolutlely right[msnsad]