Tickets Alert: Dinner and special tours of a Jumbo Jet
This coming Saturday (12th Dec), there will be a rather strange dining event – dinner on a Jumbo Jet.
It’s being put on by Virgin Atlantic, as a sort of farewell event after they suddenly retired their entire fleet of Boing 747-400s earlier this year, without the usual sort of farewell event that such things garner.
So, they’re putting on a bit of a do at one of their planes currently stored at Heathrow Aiport.
Tickets cost £50, and get you a host of goodies:
The event will start with champagne on the upper deck, followed by a 3-course meal while former pilots, cabin crew and engineers chat about life in the skies. After dinner, there will be tours around the plane, including the behind-the-scenes areas not normally seen by the public.
This is followed by a very rare chance that for many will be worth the cost alone – a photo of you standing inside one of the giant engines.
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Monday (7th Dec) and are likely to be snapped up exceptionally quickly – from here.
(tip, the page redirects to Eventbrite, and you may find it helpful to log in to your account/open an account before 9am)
Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Trussell Trust.
The aircraft being used for the event, Boeing 747-400 G-VROY is estimated to make its final departure from London Heathrow on the 16th December.
There’ll be certain people wanting to commemorate the end of the Virgin 747 and what a great way to do so given the current situation.
Compared with Singapore’s 3-hour fest at about £400 or even the time trip 5-course feast in a replica Pan Am clipper in LA at about £220, Virgin’s meal with back stage tour seems unbelievably cheap.
BA marked the passing of theirs simply by flying them until they didn’t anymore. I guess those who wanted that last ticket found out and acted before the scrapping became public.
Presumably this last chance for nosh on a Virgin is because the 16th December flight is to Cardiff or Newquay for scrapping.
A lad I used to work with as a market trader became a 747 pilot and finished up on virgins 747 fleet, I presume he will be redundant now. His name is Michael Hope and originally from oswaldtwistle
This sounds very nice and good value for what you getting iff only we lived closer we would of snapped this rear opportunities as always wanted to go go on a virgin jumbo, I hope its a good day fot all x