{"id":16708,"date":"2023-09-21T20:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=16708"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:28:01","slug":"pre-select-your-exclusive-virgin-atlantic-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/09\/21\/pre-select-your-exclusive-virgin-atlantic-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-select your (exclusive) Virgin Atlantic meal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virgin Atlantic has an interesting feature which not many people are aware of &#8211; passengers in the Premium or Upper Class cabin can pre-select their meal before their flight.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There are two reasons why this is useful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your meal choice is guaranteed, important especially if your seat is further back in the cabin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some meal options are only available if pre-ordered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that it is different to the special meal options you see on the flight booking page. Meal pre-select must be done via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/virgin-pre-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">this dedicated portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the available options for an upcoming LHR-PVG flight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Baked North Atlantic Cod<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toragashi Marinated Halloumi Poke Bowl (<em>v<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chicken Achari Curry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lamb Saag Curry (<em>halal<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stir-fried Chicken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spring Vegetable Soup (<em>v<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Braised Lamb Rump <em>(exclusive)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lobster &amp; Crab Tortellini <em>(exclusive)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You only need to select the main course, and it&#8217;s limited to one per person (doh). As you can see there are two exclusive meals, and they do sound more tempting than the rest!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal-exlusive.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal-exlusive.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal-exlusive.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-atlantic-pre-select-meal-exlusive-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The meal order window opens 7 days before the flight and closes 24 hours prior. I procrastinated when I was flying to LA last year and missed out &#8211; lesson learned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic has an interesting feature which not many people are aware of &#8211; passengers in the Premium or Upper Class cabin can pre-select their meal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27013,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions\/27013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}