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Don't fly Virgin even if it is free
101 problems but the crowning glory was...

The pilot turning a fully laden Jumbo the wrong way onto the runway and then trying to do a U-turn and getting the plane stuck on the grass.

two and a half fucking hours to tow the plane back onto the runway - closing the airport to all planes. This was before the 10 hour flight home with 3 kids unable to release their seat belts for 3 hours.

Tell me your horror stories, I know you have them
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:33, archived)
I've never had a problem with Virgin.
You are clearly an aeroplane FAIL.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:34, archived)
I refused to fly on them after they were so crap 8 years back
I made this one exception. Never again. This was one of a huge catalogue of major errors on both flights.

Including sitting a 4 year old daughter 10 rows away on her own. Tickets in the correct name but the names on the plane log showing all children had the same name so they couldn't fly. Virgin error, not ours.

Over booking 100 passengers and then having to put up families overnight - a scheduled flight - not a tour plane
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:37, archived)
I've found they're perfectly fine until something goes wrong and you have to phone tech support

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:39, archived)
Isn't everything fine until it goes wrong?
When something goes wrong it stops being fine.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:53, archived)
Are we flirting?

(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:34, archived)
I'm not very good with 'signals'
But I think it's pretty obvious he wants to take you to a buffet.
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:42, archived)
I'll have to get my hair done!

(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:44, archived)
Don't forget to put a lunchbox in your manbag.
You need to get your money's worth!
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:45, archived)
bugger
thats a real shitter...
(I helped save b3ta! crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:34, archived)
Sounds like a laugh
Was he popped up? They usually are.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:35, archived)
Why couldn't they take their seat belts off?

(I helped save b3ta! Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:35, archived)
this

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:36, archived)
take off? land? turbulence?

(I helped save b3ta! crazyjude is very happy with happytoast and his skill, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:36, archived)
With the plane already on the ground?
There might be a sensible reason they couldn't have bussed the passengers to the terminal and then worried about the plane afterwards, but I suspect Stupid Rules.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:38, archived)
But then why single out the kids?
No-one would have been able to take them off which would be a bigger complaint then just the kids.
(I helped save b3ta! Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:38, archived)
Tricky with such short arms.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:36, archived)
Could Enigmatic not help them :(

(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:37, archived)

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(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:38, archived)
Nature can be so cruel.
I have a mental image of a T-rex family trapped on a plane.
(I helped save b3ta! WormuIus, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:42, archived)
because they were attaching tractors to tow the blasted plane

(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:38, archived)
Ah....
incase the plane jolted and they fell out etc?
(I helped save b3ta! Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:39, archived)
Hungry tractors that eat people?

(I helped save b3ta! Stoopiduk is the waterboatman., Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:39, archived)
It's shitty that they won't ferry the passengers out in these situations.
There's probably a reason for it which an engineer is frustrated about somewhere.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:37, archived)
You can't have people walking around an airport
They might be terrorismists!
(I helped save b3ta! Stoopiduk is the waterboatman., Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:39, archived)
Ryanair.
Shitty landings, leaving half of our party in Germany because they said 'don't worry about getting from Hamburg to the tiny airport, we've put on coaches for you' - they put on ONE coach. So we were late- a couple of us got squeezed onto the next flight but my then boyfriend and one other had to sleep outside the airport till the next day.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:37, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:39, archived)
Once I was supposed to fly this Jumbo Jet
we were about to take off, but I only went and turned the bloody thing the wrong way on the runway and ended up in the grass!

All the passengers were getting mouthy and annoyed and there were these 3 kids who were making a hell of a noise. Nightmare!

Almost 3 hours to tow us back onto the runway, then on top of that I still had to fly the bloody thing for 10 hours!
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I almost shat myself on a KLM flight a few months ago
Also, a couple of years ago, I was on a long haul, and there were two essex women in front of us. They got really drunk, and were really loud and pissed everyone off. Eventually one of them pissed herself, before taking her trousers off and hanging them over the headrest on the seat in front.
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:40, archived)
you should have taken her in the toilets
sounds like she was ready
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:43, archived)
drunken piss sex in a shit-smelling room smaller than a wardrobe?
what was I thinking?
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:48, archived)
Something called "NICE" (a part of the NHS) are working on 2002 data for my medicine, and as such, are pondering about proper funding.
It's shit, because of this first wait, I've had to start from scratch with my treatments. They've authorized the 'initial' treatments, that I'm going through, but by the time they make the permanently decision, I'll have to go through the 'initial' stuff again, because it wears out.

And because I'll be going through the initial stuff, they won't make the decision.

It'll loop around forever and forever, unless they so 'no', in which case, they'll be appeals and stuff, and continuation of the loop.

So, basicly, I get to be well for two months, then sick for 6 months, for a long time, because they're working on data from 2002 which doesn't show how well this stuff works.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:43, archived)
Thats shit
Can't you fund it yourself until they make a decision?
It would get you out of the "loop"
(I helped save b3ta! Mornington Crescent Come the Envolution ..., Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:18, archived)