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Photo taken by: Dominic Scarff
Route: LAX - LHR, 21 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 6,000
Flight duration: 10h 35m
Class: business
Aircraft: A340-600
Meal: Dinner / Breakfast - Soup was good, had steak for the mains (not pictured).
Overall a good meal.
Breakfast, was ready mintues after waking up thanks to the pre-order card, everything was good apart from the bacon roll.
Drink: Wine & Beer / Coffee
Comments:
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.5

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Photo taken by: Dominic Scarff
Route: LHR - SFO, 10 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 6,000
Flight duration: 10h 30m
Class: business
Aircraft: 747-400
Meal: Lunch - The Soup was good, plenty of bread to go with it.
The lamb pie was not my first choice as I choose to eat later, it was average. The afternoon sandwitches were good but the best thing was Virgin's cappuccino.
Drink: Heineken / Cappuccino / Wine
Comments: cappuccino's were excellent.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Kevin Kempton
Route: MCO - LGW, 27 Feb 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 7h 25m
Class: economy
Aircraft: 747-400
Meal: BBQ Chicken Dinner - 2 Pieces of Southern Fried Chicken Strips
BBQ Sauce
Sweetcorn and Red Kidney Beans
Mashed Potatoes
Crackers with Mild Cheese
Lettuce Leaf Salad + 1 tomato
Chocolate cookie cheesecake
Drink: Red Wine
Comments: The chicken was nice, but the bbq sauce was too spicy.
The mash was nice.
The lettuce was a little bland, and needed more tomatos
The dessert was a little too rich for my likings.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Kevin Kempton
Route: LGW - MCO, 13 Feb 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 9h 10m
Class: economy
Aircraft: 747-400
Meal: Chicken Dinner - 1 Piece Of Chicken (Boneless)
1 Small Piece Of Sage And Onion Stuffing
Herb and Vegetable Mash
Crackers and Strong Cheddar
'Yumbo' Dessert
Drink: Red Wine (included)
Comments: The chicken was juicy and tender, though could have been bigger.
The stuffing was tasty and full of flavour
The mash was a little too obscure for my tastes
Cheese and Crackers were very nice, though crackers too small
Dessert was rich and creamy, and very filling.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: Dominic Scarff
Route: IAD - LHR, 4 Dec 2005
Ticket price: £5,500
Flight duration: 6h 20m
Class: business
Aircraft: Virgin Clubhouse Meal (IAD)
Meal: Dinner (Pre-Flight) - Salmon was excellent, the tomatoes underneath were cool which wasn't nice.
Drink: Beer
Comments:
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5

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Photo taken by: Dominic Scarff
Route: LHR - SFO, 29 Nov 2005
Ticket price: £5,500
Flight duration: 10h 50m
Class: business
Aircraft: 747-400
Meal: Lunch - The freedom menu is excellent, the steak was cooked well and was just enough, pretty of bread offered including garlic but wasn't that warm. Vegetables were done Al Dente which I like.
Drink: Water
Comments: Cappuccino was excellent one of many on the flight. The scone was warmed and the sandwiches were fine.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.5

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Photo taken by: Roberto Addoms
Route: LHR - LAX, 30 Jan 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 11h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: airbus a340
Meal: afternoon tea - fruit scone with clotted cream and straberry jam
chicken pie
tea with blood orange-chocolate drops
mini pastries-coffee eclair, toffee chocolate cheesecake (I forget what the one in the middle was, but it was good!)
Drink: tea (asked for coffee, but got tea, it was good though)
Comments: I was really impressed. There were at least a 1/2 dozen choices off the a la carte menu to choose from, and you could mix and match as you desired. The crew and the food were absolutely top notch!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: Roberto Addoms
Route: LHR - LAX, 30 Jan 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 11h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: Airbus a340
Meal: Lunch - green salad with chicken and fresh mozzarella
Salmon and hake with a lemon sauce. seafood paella and asparagus
Chocolate bread and butter pudding with champagne clotted cream
Midflight snack-Ben and Jerry's ice cream
Drink: white wine, coffee with dessert, Jack Daniels and coke later on
Comments: Salmon was a little dry, as airline fish can be, paella was a little salty, but the lemon sauce was delicious.
The pudding doesn't look like much but was very good
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Roberto Addoms
Route: LAX - LHR, 19 Jan 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 10h 45m
Class: business
Aircraft: Airbus a340
Meal: breakfast - bacon roll, fresh fruit with yogurt, croissant
Drink: coffee and fresh OJ
Comments: Breakfast was served whenever you wanted. I woke up late, and even though we were landing in about 45 minutes, they put together a breakfast tray. Bacon roll was a little dry though.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.5

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Photo taken by: Roberto Addoms
Route: LAX - LHR, 19 Jan 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 10h 45m
Class: business
Aircraft: airbus a340
Meal: late dinner - pre dinner drink -vodka cranberry
green salad with sliced rare beef and shaved fennel
butternut squash ravioli with tarragon cream sauce, shaved parmesan, red pepper and grilled zucchini
'chocolate pyramid' for dessert with berries
Drink: a nice red Bordeaux, coffee with dessert
Comments: Fantastic! The ravioli was just incredible one of the best plates of pasta I have ever had. The dessert was filled with a wonderful chocolate mousse and tasted as great as it looked.
The service was done really fast since the flight left at 9:00pm and most passengers went right to sleep after dinner. Service however was very personal and professional. The seats convert to beds in Virgin Upper class and are REALLY comfortable. First time I have gotten a good nights sleep on the airplane. Their upper class is a really fantastic product.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: CREWTAG.COM
Route: JFK - LHR, 28 Jul 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 7h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Meal: Dinner and then breakfast - - Dinner tray set up
- Continental breakfast
Drink: n/a
Comments: I was expecting more from Virgin but the service was great. The interior of the aircraft and the lighting was quite a riot!!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Iris Yim
Route: Hong Kong - Sydney, 21 May 2005
Ticket price: AUD 670 (return)
Flight duration: 9h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus
Meal: Normal - Bread roll
Greek Salad
Beans, tomato, chicken, rice
Chocolate Brownies
Biscuit
Chocolate snack bar
Cheese
Drink: Water, Orange juice, selectin of wine
Comments: Rich tomato sauce, delicious combined with chicken
Salad is fresh but fair taste
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Koopa
Route: DELHI - LONDON, 9 Sep 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 9h 00m
Class: premium economy
Aircraft: 747
Meal: SNACK - "Burger" plus banana muffin
Drink: Water
Comments: Absolutely appaling. Some sort of meat in a bun (described as a Burger) and simply labelled as "non veg"! Really not what I expected from Virgin Atlantic.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: Adam Barnes
Route: Antigua to Gatwick , 16 Jul 2005
Ticket price: Free
Flight duration: 7 hrs 15 mins
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack, preodered Hindu dinner, breakfast
Contents of the meal: Special Meal (Hindu), Sweetcorn salad, vegetable curry and rice, fruit salad, rice cake instead of roll
Breakfast- tinned fruits, rice cake instead of muffin
Drink: Apple Juice
Comments: Fairly bland curry otherwise average economy meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4
Camera brand & type: Sony Cyber-shot


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Photo taken by: Peter Buckley
Route: Miami to Heathrow, 13 Jun 2005
Ticket price: $800
Flight duration: 8 hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 Upper Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Beef, Potato wedges and Broccoli
Drink: Chilean Red
Comments: Nice tender beef and broccoli cooked to perfection
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
Camera brand & type:Canon Ixus (digital)


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Photo taken by: Sugaryblue
Route: HK to Syd, 28 February 2005
FLight duration: 8+
Aircraft type of class: A340-600 Economy
Leisure trip
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Croissant, fruit, OJ, Cheese + Egg + Tomato toastie,
Drink: Coffee, tea, water, OJ
Comments: Breakfast was relatively disappointing, i was expecting a
little more like yohurt or muffin or something like that. Fruit was
relatively fresh, but the others wasn't very nice
Rating: 6


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Photo taken by: Sugaryblue
Route: Hong Kong - Sydney, 28 February 2005
Ticket price: cheap!
Flight duration: 8hr +
Aircraft type: A340-600 Economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: dinner
Contents of the meal: Ginger lemon chicken, butter cake?, caesar
salad, bread roll, tablerone, cheese and crackers
Drink: anything...
Comments: i liked the outbound meal better. but it was still very
nice. Chicken was moist and tasty, and the salad was quite fresh. the
cake was a bit hard and wasn't as nice as the mud cake and carrot cake
that we've got on outbound flight. the virgin atlantic meal size is
relatively small but i think that's good coz normally they tend to
overfeed people on airline.
Rating: 7+


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Photo taken by: Jason Swan
Route: LHR-HKG, 25 Feb 2005
Ticket price: Frequent Flyer Miles
Flight duration: approx. 13 hrs
Aircraft type & class: 340-600, Upper Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lounge Meal
Comments: Very tatsy
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9


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Photo taken by: K Howard
Route: London Heathrow to Newark, 23 Oct 2004
Ticket price: Approx £900
Flight duration: 7 hours
Aircraft type & class: A340-300; Upper Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Seasonal Leaf Salad with marinated salmon and dill vinaigrette (Starter), Grilled fillet steak with seasonal vegetables and horseradish sauce (Main), Sweet savoury biscuits, French brie, Hereford cheddar and blue vein (Cheese selection)
Drink: Chateauneuf Du Pape 2002
Comments: I was upgraded to Upper on this leg which was unexpected! Starter: Very fresh, the dressing was well suited to the salmon and vegetables. The vegetables were all crisp and green. Main: Presentation was mediocre but quality ingredients. Cheese: basic selection, no butter provided but satisfactory with port that was offered.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9/10 overall, only let down by less than perfect presentation.
Camera brand & type: Kodak, 2 Megapixel

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Photo taken by: Jeff Brown
Route: MAN-MCO, 22 Oct 2004
Ticket price: £400 Return
Flight duration: ~8 Hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747-219B Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack/Dinner/Snack/Snack
Contents of the meal:
Snack: Virgin Cola, Pretzels and a Hand and Face Towel (I'd advise keeping this until you land so you can freshen up just before you leave the aircraft).
Dinner: Steak Pie with Mash Potato and Carrotts as the main portion, with Salad, Crunchie Dessert, a Bread Roll, Cheese Crackers, Water, a Glass of White Wine, a Chocolate, and a Cup of Tea as the side items.
Snack: A Strawberry Ice Cream.
Snack: Cheese and Pickle Sandwiches with a KitKat and Cup of Tea. Very, very tasty! If Virgin ever move into the business of Sandwich making, the world will be a better place!
Drink: Cola, Water, Wine, and Tea.
Comments: As always, excellent service and excellent meals with Virgin Atlantic. My only slight complaint is that the Carrotts were a little on the hard side, but the Cheese and Pickle Sandwiches more than made up for that!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
Camera brand & type: Konica Minolta Z2

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Photo taken by: Jeff Brown
Route: MCO-MAN, 16 Oct 2004
Ticket price: £400 Return
Flight duration: ~7 Hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747-219B Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack/Dinner/Breakfast
Contents of the meal:
Snack: Virgin Cola, Pretzels and a Hand and Face Towel.
Dinner: Chicken and Rice as the main portion, with Salad, Chocolate Cake, a Bread Roll, Cheese Crackers, Water, a Glass of White Wine, and a Cup of Tea as the side items.
Breakfast: A selection of sliced fruit, with a Blueberry Muffin, Orange Juice and a Cup of Tea.
Drink: Cola, Orange Juice, Water, Wine, and Tea.
Comments: Food; excellent. Service; excellent. And it's never been any different with Virgin Atlantic in my experience! Only thing that could make it better would be a good old English Breakfast in place of the fruit.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
Camera brand & type: Konica Minolta Z2

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Photo taken by: K Howard
Route: London Heathrow to Newark, 23 Oct 2004
Ticket price: Approx £900
Flight duration: 7 hours
Aircraft type & class: A340-300; Upper Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Seasonal Leaf Salad with marinated salmon and dill vinaigrette (Starter), Grilled fillet steak with seasonal vegetables and horseradish sauce (Main), Sweet savoury biscuits, French brie, Hereford cheddar and blue vein (Cheese selection)
Drink: Chateauneuf Du Pape 2002
Comments: I was upgraded to Upper on this leg which was unexpected! Starter: Very fresh, the dressing was well suited to the salmon and vegetables. The vegetables were all crisp and green. Main: Presentation was mediocre but quality ingredients. Cheese: basic selection, no butter provided but satisfactory with port that was offered.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9/10 overall, only let down by less than perfect presentation.
Camera brand & type: Kodak, 2 Megapixel

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Photo taken by: Dan Wilson
Route: LHR to JFK, 6 July 2004
Ticket price: £441
Flight duration: 6.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747-400 economy
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch
Pasta, bread, salad, chocolate desert
Drink: water, white wine followed by tea (other drinks available)
Comments: Rather disappointing food served by Virgin on this afternoon flight. The main course that I chose was a chicken in pasta concoction. The pasta was a very overcooked and the sauce was very salty. However, this is only to be expected of airline food. What did surprise me was the chicken: not very tender and it tasted very much like turkey if I wasn> '> t mistaken. To top the chicken dish off was a limp, soggy bit of > "> garlic bread> "> . The accompanying salad was okay, very tasty olives let down by an attempt at roasted vegetables - the peppers and piece of courgette in there were not roasted on the inside regardless of how they had been made to look on the outside. Desert was a Cadbury Crunchy type desert with a very watery chocolate sauce, which I found a bit sickly. I expected better food and better service. Meal gave me indigestion
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3
Camera brand & type: Canon S50 Powershot

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Photo taken by: Todd Scudiere
Route: New Delhi to LHR, 7 Jun 2004
Ticket price: Miles
Flight duration: 9:20
Aircraft type & class: A340-300, economy class.
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: 1st beverage service
Contents of the meal: sour cream and onion pretzels
Drink: Gin & Tonic
Comments: Pictured here are the gin & tonic (small can is Virgin brand Indian tonic), pretzels, face towel in package, amenities kit and headset.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
Camera brand & type: Canon A300

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Photo taken by: Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Route: London to Newark, 16 Apr 2004
Flight duration: 7 hours
[083] * Drinks with pretzels (I don't like them :-(
[084] * Lunch. I asked for Muslim meal and what I got was a vegetarian meal. If I wanted a vegetarian meal I could have ordered it. I don't like when airlines claim to have many different meal options but in reality they have just two. with meat and without meat and Virgin Atlantic was no different. Having said that vegetable rice and vegetable curry was reasonably good with good spices. I think I got green salad and fresh fruits (just a few pieces) as dessert which was better than what other were getting. Cheese was great.
[085] * Ice Cream was a good idea.
[086] * Pre arrival snack of a sandwich and a muffin. Bread was too hard and dry.
Coffee or tea and softdrinks were available.
Rating: Lunch: Considering that it was not what I ordered I will rate it 5.
Snack: 4

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Photo taken by: Justin Wood
Route: LHR-LAX, 7 Apr 2004
Ticket price: £316
Flight duration: 11hrs 10mins
Aircraft type & class: B747-400 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Vegetable Curry
Drink: Water + Virgin Cola
Comments: Curry was not bad, it was a little bit bland. Rest of the in flight food was great and I walked off the plane feeling pretty full up.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
Camera brand & type: Canon EOS D30

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Photo taken by: Ed Crowder
Route: VS001 London LHRto Newark, 31 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $368 RT
Aircraft type and class: 747 economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch - sausage and mashed potatoes with peas; bun; salad; some kind of weird pudding-like dessert.
Drink: wine
Comments: much better than the flight over -- if you like bangers and mash. Note the romaine lettuce.
Rating: 6

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: LHR-JFK VS009, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $333 (not taxes)
Flight duration: 7 hours+
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 G-VBUS Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: (Vegan) A banana, and a fresh veggie wrap.
Drink: None.
Comments: Wow! This certainly tops all other VS snacks and most other airlines main meals. The banana was *shock* all yellow and was not a small thing. The wrap was a decent size and could have been a bit bigger, but was filled with wonderful fresh veggies. My seat mate said that she would consider ordering a vegan meal just because of the comparison in meal quality.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: LHR-JFK VS009, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $333 (not taxes)
Flight duration: 7 hours+
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 G-VBUS Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: A muffin and some type of roasted veggie sandwich on a roll.
Drink: VMix Diet Cola
Comments: This certainly beats the VS morning "snack" and the portions were quite generous. It was pretty good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: LHR-JFK VS009, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $333 (not taxes)
Flight duration: 7 hours+
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 G-VBUS Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch/Dinner
Contents of the meal: This was the meat/sausage meal, it had a funny name that I cannot seem to remember. It was meat and sausage with peas and potatoes, roll, salad, cheese and crackers, and "Flake" desert.
Drink: VMix Diet Cola (not pictured) and red wine
Comments: This was not my seat mate's first choice, and the options were down to this and something else with 10 rows still to be served (the veggie option ran out quickly). It ended up not being so good; I think the rest of the rear part of the plane would agree.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: LHR-JFK VS009, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $333 (not taxes)
Flight duration: 7 hours+
Aircraft type & class: A340-300 G-VBUS Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch/Dinner
Contents of the meal: (Vegan) Roasted vegetables over rice, roll, salad, fresh fruit, dried fruit
Drink: VMix Cola (not pictured)
Comments: The London-bound meals are usually better than the East Coast ones, there was not anything special or outstanding about this meal, but was certainly above average. Margarine and a milk substitute powder was even included, a first out of many flight.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: LGW-MCO VS027, 26 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $333 (not including taxes)
Flight duration: 8 hours+
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 G-VROM Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: (Vegan) Chickpeas in a tomato sauce over rice,
salad, a roll, fresh fruit, dried fruit
Drink: Ginger ale by VMix (not pictured)
Comments: Not my favorite VS meal, the London bound from the East Coast are my favorite. It was good, although spicy. The salad might have contained mayo (not suitable for vegans) and I have never gotten a roll with a vegan meal when others had.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: EWR-LHR VS002, 22 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $328 (not including taxes)
Flight duration: 6 hours+
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 G-VAST Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast: Fruit (it was in my stomach), a scone, and orange juice
Drink: Orange juice came with the meal and there was coffee/tea service
Comments: I think the picture says a lot...the fruit was good, the orange juice nice and cold - but I cannot say anything about the scone: I took the pre-packaged thingy and never ate it. With still more than 1.5 hours, I think that this service could be improved. I ordered a vegan meal, and on a previous VS flight, I got a special meal for breakfast, but this time, I got what everyone else got.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: EWR-LHR VS002, 22 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $328 (not including taxes)
Flight duration: 6 hours+
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 G-VAST Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Main Course: Salmon in a white sauce over yellow rice with broccoli on the side; salad; roll; mini-cake.
Drink: Red wine
Comments: A nice portion of salmon, the salad was fresh, the cake was good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: EWR-LHR VS002, 22 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $328 (not including taxes)
Flight duration: 6 hours+
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 G-VAST Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: (Vegan) Main Course: Grilled tofu with a chutney
sauce over rice with assorted vegetables; salad; fresh grapes; dried fruit.
Drink: Ginger ale (not pictured)
Comments: I had a meal very similar to this a month previously, and this one was even better! VS does a wonderful service: It was a very large portion of tofu and the meal was filling. I am still trying to figure out how they grilled the tofu and what the sauce was :)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10!

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Photo taken by: Will H.
Route: JFK-LHR, 21 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $333 (Fare, not taxes)
Flight duration: 6 Hours
Aircraft type & class: A340-600 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Tofu over rive, Rice Cake, Fresh Fruit, Salad (sorry, not pictured) Desert: Dried Fruit (Vegan Meal)
Drink: Virgin Ginger Ale
Comments: It took them a while to find it, but it was worth it. The tofu was marianted with a great light-sweet sauce, and the fruit was very fresh and good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10