Virgin Trains to run 25 Additional Services on London - Scotland Route During BA Strike

LONDON, December 15 - Virgin Trains is urgently firming up precise timing details for 25
additional services that it plans to run on the London - Glasgow via Preston
route over the Christmas and New Year holiday period to help passengers
affected by the proposed strike by British Airways' cabin crew.

The extra trains will supplement the already advertised service of 26
trains daily in both directions between Euston and Glasgow.

Chris Gibb, Virgin Trains' Chief Operating Officer, said today: "We will
of course be busy at this time of year, but I am confident that with the
additional trains being arranged alongside our scheduled services, most of
which have 439 seats, we will be able to carry all our regular customers
together with those displaced by the BA strike, whom I would like to welcome
to our trains."

Further details regarding the exact timings of extra trains will be
available very soon.

Virgin Trains Media Information

Notes to Editors

Images of Virgin Trains and the company's operations are available in the
Image Library on our online Media Room website
www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/

You can subscribe to receive alerts to new press releases by visiting
www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/

Virgin Trains is the brand name of Virgin Rail Group. We have operated
the West Coast passenger train franchise since 1997; the current franchise
runs to March 2012.

Virgin Rail Group is owned 51 percent by Virgin Group and 49 percent by
Stagecoach.

Virgin Trains has been recognised in numerous industry awards. In 2009
the company was awarded the Globe Travel Awards 2009 'Best Rail Operator'
Category as voted by Evening Standard readers; voted Best UK Domestic Train
Service by Business Traveller magazine for the second year running; and named
Best Rail Operator in the 2009 Group Leisure Awards, run by Group Leisure,
the magazine for group travel organisers.

Notes to editors: For further information contact the Virgin Trains Press Desk on
+44(0)845-000-3333 or visit www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/