Choosing your airline

Sorry, make that Virgin Atlantic.

I don’t know if the airport makes a difference, but I book directly on the Virgin Atlantic site and only on flights that indicate they will be operated by Virgin Atlantic. They operate 3 or 4 daily flights out of LAX, so that may make the difference.

Where are you trying to book the flight? To where?

I went to Virgin's website and found there is one daily flight to London from Seattle. It shows up first. The others will say whovis operating them

Hint--if the flight number has four numbers it's probably a code share operated by another airline.

Hi! Where are you flying to? I just did a quick look on the VA and Port of Seattle websites, Seattle to Europe, Virgin Atlantic only flies their planes to the UK. To see if you’re booking on actual Virgin Atlantic equipment or a partner., you need to sleuth a bit when booking and click on “details” to get the actual flight info. It’s a bit tricky. You can’t go by the flight number with a “V” in front of of it, you need to drill down to see whose plane you’re really going to be on. Hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have more questions.

This is nice to hear as I'm flying on Virgin Atlantic for the first time next month.

When you're looking at a flight it should tell you which airline it's operated by, usually near the flight number. On the Delta app and website right under the flight number it says "Operated by Virgin Atlantic."

We purchased a flight through Delta from our home airport with one leg from went from Seattle to London (and my husband did the RT two weeks later). Both of those were with Virgin Atlantic, and we agree that the flight experience was very nice! Neither of us experienced jet lag on arrival in London/Oxford, but my husband did have it on returning home.

I’ve purchased flights in the past where what I booked and then the actual flight time were different because of changes. So, it may also be how early you purchase your flight. If it’s closer to the day of flight, there’s less chance of being switched to a different flight time/code share carrier. (I flew home from Amsterdam to Seattle on Delta during this trip and still had a good flight.)

Virgin Atlantic is our airline of choice when flying to London. The last time we flew them, my Wow moment was when the new Airbus had enough legroom in Premium Economy that the person in the aisle seat didn't have to get up when people in the interior seats went to the bathroom. Of course, YMMV

When you are on the airline site booking your ticket, it will usually say something like "Delta flight #1234 operated by Virgin Atlantic" or "Virgin flight #1234 operated by Delta". It is sometimes smaller print and you might have to click "details" to see it on the website but it is not too hard to find. Another clue is if when you book you can not select seat assignments on the website then that is probably because it is a partner airline. Hope that helps!!

Another clue is if when you book you can not select seat assignments on the website then that is probably because it is a partner airline.

Sometimes you can select your seat on the Delta site for a Virgin flight. I was able to. It just says "more seats available on virginatlantic.com" or something like that.

We flew on Virgin Air from London to Seattle last year. I felt like I had gone back in time about 40 years. The seats were comfortable. The food was actually good.

What seating class were you in?