Post #30423 by Doctor Z on Tue, Apr 15, 2003 6:33 PM

I'm also partial to Virgin Atlantic. Not only because of their service, meals and convenience of flight times, but also their tendency to overbook flights.

Huh? This is good?

Lemme s'plain...
Z-Girl and I went to the U.K. last summer and as we were waiting to check in for our flight, a Virgin rep came through the line explaining that they'd overbooked the flight - would there be anyone willing to fly out the next day (same flight/same time) in exchange for: 4-star overnight accomodations, $100 each in meal vouchers, taxi service, and round-trip tix to wherever Virgin flies good for 18 months? OK, twist my arm... we went for it! While it shortened our 15-day stay by a day (it was raining in London anyhow), we now have tix to go back this summer for FREE!

(We're heading to Ireland for 10 days in August and will be in London for a few days - lookin' to hit the Trader Vic's again, but this time with some TC'ers!)

BTW-- Virgin made the same "offer" on our return flight! We volunteered again, but at the last minute they determined that we didn't need to be 'bumped' after all. But they moved us up to FIRST CLASS for 'our graciousness' (I swear that's what he called it!) anyhow!

Yep, Virgin is the way to go in my book!