LHR to MIA - Virgin or BA?

[tim0409]

Hi

We are in the process of booking flights from Edinburgh (via heathrow) to Miami at the end of August and would welcome views on which airline is best - BA or Virgin. We have flown to Florida with BA quite a few times over the years but the last trip was on a rather old 747 and we weren't that impressed. The trip before had been EDI via New York on Continental (I think) and on the way back our flights were changed to Virgin due to snow storms in New York - this was on a A340 which was so much better than BA.

Has anyone got any recent experiences of the route and the types of planes in use? I note that Thomson are going to use Dreamliners to Sanford but I might let them do a few more ETOPS flights first.....

[Puggit]

Last January BA used a tired old 747

If you visit seatguru.com and put in the flight details they'll tell you which plane it is.

BA flights are always full due to cruise companies using them (I don't know if this applies to Virgin). The later BA flight arrives around 3pm - this is a terrible time to arrive due to immigration queues.

[rpm1969]

Virgin use an A330 or 747 on Miami, depending on the day of the week. The A330s are brand new - they have only been in service for a year. The 747s are older but should be similar inside to the Virgin A340 you went on in terms of age of the seats and inflight entertainment and so on.

[Kudos]

Puggit said:

The later BA flight arrives around 3pm - this is a terrible time to arrive due to immigration queues.

Go via Dublin/Shannon if you can and you therefore clear US immigration in Ireland.

[red]

Try American Airlines, generally the cheaper, return with BA and you can upgrade for about £95. I find the cabin crew on AA are generally better.

[Puggit]

[David Beer]

All airlines are a bit tight! I use virgin twice a year, in fact to New york on saturday and out of La at the end of July. Have tried most of the usa airlines !!!!

[David Beer]

Ok I take it back , funny how threads loose steam!