I just came back from a short break to the States on which I went to DC and NY. And as I work only on narrow bodied A/C, I'm always thrilled to leave on holiday on a wide body.
So I left to LHR on BD's F-100 and then on VS' A340-600 to IAD.
here's a picture of an VS A340-600 example:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/457098/M/
Very powerfull and exiting take off :jumpy: and thanks to lots of turbulence : noisy moving overhead bins, but then again let's not forget that I'm travelling on Airbus. The engines were noiseless. (Last week I saw an IB A340-600 when I was standing on the apron in MAD and even from the outside it sounds like a small vacuum cleaner passing by)
This is a picture from the Y-class cabin:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/435799/M/
Notice the chrome metal air outlets above the pax seats and the chrome handgrips of the overhead bins. Very large tv-screens showing 18 movies which each pax can choose to play, stop, rewind, and forward individually.
The lavatories are a dream: they are very large, have very soft dark purple lightning and that very metallic, iron look.
I tried to get an upgrading to premium economy at the check-in desk in LHR and JFK but they refused eventhough the plane was not even halffull.
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Upgradings used to be so easy especially on inbound flights from the US.
Today even Belgian Chocolats are a waste of monney.
This is a picture of C-class (Upper-Class) on VS' A340-600:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/260600/M/
The only dissapointment was the cabin crew:they gave me a very hostile impression (as if we were disruptive passengers), were very straight forward and assertive.:teach: :heyyou: I was so surprised. Ambiance on the inbound B744 JFKLHR was totally different. I wonder if Belgian cabincrews give the same impression here in Belgium.
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As for VS groundstaff in LHR/IAD/JFK on the contrary: waauuw..very reasonable, kind and helpfull people.
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