We’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that IATA Resolution 830d mandates that agents actively ask each passenger whether they wish to have their contact details (mobile number and/or email) provided to Virgin Atlantic, and other airlines in the itinerary, so that we are able to contact them in the event of flight disruption, including delay, cancellation, schedule change, or important pre-travel information such as specific entry requirements. Where the passenger does not wish to provide their contact details, you should advise the passenger that they may not receive information from us.
To align with changes made on our partner airline, Delta Air Lines, we are updating baggage charge exceptions for all VS-marketed flights between Africa and the United States / Canada. These changes will affect Economy Light, Economy Classic, and Economy Delight tickets and the effective date for this change is 16 December 2024. |
We’re letting you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our upcoming flying schedule between London Heathrow and Cape Town. Services will now operate during the Winter 2024 season only, resulting in the cancellation of flights during April 2024. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to affected customers.
The following flights will be cancelled:
| Flight number | Route | Date |
| VS478 | London Heathrow to Cape Town | 30 March 2025 – 30 April 2025 |
| VS479 | Cape Town to London Heathrow | 31 March 2025 – 01 May 2025 |
It’s been necessary to make these changes to ensure our operation is resilient, while it is impacted by the reduced availability of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, which are fitted to our Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Our teams are working closely with our partners at Rolls-Royce on solutions to minimise disruption to our flying programme, but some amendments are required.
Bookings affected by these changes will be updated in your GDS on Saturday 16 November 2024.
Our schedule change policy will provide you with all the information you need for supporting our mutual customers affected by these changes. We also have rebooking options below and, alternatively, a full refund can be offered as per our refund policy.
Sales Support
Where possible we would kindly request that you contact us using our Get in touch form and the team will continue to work hard to respond to your queries within 72 hours between Monday and Friday.
Passengers that have been impacted by a VS cancellation may be rebooked onto services operated by 4Z
· Valid for reprotection onto services between CPT and JNB only
· Flights must be rebooked using either 4Z prime flights
· Customers connecting to/from other VS/VS* services must remain on a VS/VS* flight
| 4Z Cabin | Booking Class |
| Business | D |
| Economy | E P A |
Update the SI field with the following information:
SI INVOL REROUTE DUE VS CANCELLING SERVICES TO CPT PER 4Z/VS SPA AGREEMENT
Please reissue tickets to include endorsement:
INVOL REROUTE DUE VS CANCELLING SERVICES TO CPT PER 4Z/VS SPA AGREEMENT
Where supported, precede the fare calculation with "S-"
Tickets must be re-issued on / before revised travel date
We’re letting you know that we’ve taken the difficult decision to adjust our flying programme, which means that the restart of our Tel Aviv services and our new services to Accra will be delayed until the Winter 2025/26 season, which starts 26 October 2025.
It’s been necessary to make these changes to ensure our operation is resilient, while it is impacted by the reduced availability of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, which are fitted to our Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Our teams are working closely with our partners at Rolls-Royce on solutions to minimise disruption to our flying programme, but some amendments are required. We’d like to apologise to affected customers and remain fully committed to both routes.
Bookings impacted by these changes will be updated in your GDS on Saturday 16 November 2024. Our schedule change policy will provide you with all the information you need to support our mutual customers affected by these changes.
We are diligently arranging rebooking options, so please check back on this page shortly.
Sales Support
Where possible we would kindly request that you contact us using our Get in touch form and the team will continue to work hard to respond to your queries within 72 hours between Monday and Friday.
Passengers that have been impacted by a VS cancellation may be rebooked onto services operated by LY
· Valid for reprotection onto services between:
o LON – TLV – LON
· Flights must be rebooked using either VS* or LY Prime flights
· Customers connecting to/from other VS/VS* services must remain on a VS/VS* flight where available
· If the original booking class isn’t available, re-book in the lowest available class in the booking class tables below
· If the original cabin is not available, rebook in a lower cabin in the lowest available class
Rebooking onto VS* / LY operated flights
Between Lon - TLV
Economy |
Premium |
Business |
||||||||||||||||||
VS Marketed |
O |
N |
X |
Q |
E |
M |
U |
L |
R |
B |
Y |
K |
H |
S |
W |
Z |
I |
D |
C |
J |
LY Operated |
U |
O |
G |
N |
H |
L |
S |
V |
K |
M |
Y |
P |
B |
Q |
W |
J |
Z |
D |
I |
C |
Update the SI field with the following information:
SI INVOL REROUTE DUE VS CANCELLING SERVICES TO TLV PER LY/VS AGREEMENT
Please reissue tickets to include endorsement:
INVOL REROUTE DUE VS CANCELLING SERVICES TO TLV PER LY/VS AGREEMENT
Where supported, precede the fare calculation with "S-"
Tickets must be re-issued on / before revised travel date
Passengers that have been impacted by a VS cancellation may be rebooked onto services operated by BA
Valid for re-protections on to BA services to/from LHR-ACC/ACC-LHR
· Rebooking using BA when VS is not operating services to/from LHR-ACC
· Customers connecting to/from other VS/VS* services should remain on a VS/VS* flight where available
· If the original booking class isn’t available, re-book in the lowest available class in the booking class tables below
· If the original cabin is not available, rebook in a lower cabin in the lowest available class
BA Cabin |
Permitted RBDs on BA services |
Business |
J C D R I |
Premium Economy |
W E T |
Economy |
Y B H K M L V N O |
Update the SI field with the following information:
SI INVOL REROUTE DUE VS DELAYED SERVICES TO ACC PER BA/VS AGREEMENT
Please reissue tickets to include endorsement:
INVOL REROUTE DUE VS DELAYED SERVICES TO ACC PER BA/VS AGREEMENT
Where supported, precede the fare calculation with "S-"
Tickets must be re-issued on / before revised travel date
Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19 we are temporarily suspending the carriage of unaccompanied minors, aged 5 to 11 years old. This decision has been made with the health and safety of our people and customers at the front of our minds.
We will continue to review the situation and keep you up to date with any changes.
Our flexibility policy may be used for any unaccompanied minors that you may have booked for travel. Details can be found on our VSflyinghub
YPTA Customers
All information, including the consent form now required for anyone travelling alone age 14 – 16 years and what to do if the customer has medical conditions can be found here
YPTA travelling to Barbados
We need to let you know that we require further information for YPTA customers when travelling to Barbados (LHRBGI)
Our teams will be calling nominated guardians meeting any YPTA customers up to 4 hours prior to our flight arrival. This is to ensure that nominated guardians are at the airport to meet them and to be present in case the YPTA customer is held at the airport for any length of time due to current PCR testing requirements.
To enable our Barbados team to contact nominated guardians we require the below structured remarks to be added to the OSI field
OSI VS WBBB NAME
OSI VS WBBB ADDRESS
OSI VS WBBB CONTACT NUMBER
OSI VS WBBB EMAIL ADDRESS
OSI VS WBMB NAME
OSI VS WBMB ADDRESS
OSI VS WBMB CONTACT NUMBER
OSI VS WBMB EMAIL ADDRESS
It is also essential the YPTA SSR is added to the PNR a minimum of 72 hours prior to departure
If you have any questions about this, please contact Sales Support at sales.support@fly.virgin.com.
For all other VSbulletin information, please visit https://www.vsflyinghub.com/en/vsbulletin
For DL ticketed customers please contact UK Delta Sales Support on 0800 783 0747 or Email SalesSupport.uk@delta.com
For Delta’s up to date information please visit Delta Pro: https://pro.delta.com/content/agency/gb/en/home.html