Airmail Service - What flights does royal mail use for it's airmail service?

What flights does royal mail use for it's airmail service?

In particular does it use virgin atlantic?

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(I've seen your message to me, so my answer is written accordingly) Royal Mail usually uses British Airways. However, if there is no direct flights on the day they intend to ship, it may be put on a British Airways flight to the nearest other country, and it will be forwarded by the postal service there. For example, it may be flown by British Airways to Tobago, and then the Trinidad and Tobago postal service will send it along with their mail to Grenada. This is called forwarding and is quite common. In your message to me, you said that the Royal Mail tracker has said: "We have received your item, posted on 26/08/09 and it is being processed for delivery abroad" Now Royal Mail doesn't actually track "International Signed For" (ISF) items. They only track "Airsure" items. With ISF, you only get delivery confirmation. This means that after its been posted, it doesn't get tracked, until after it is delivered. Once the postman gets a signature from you after delivering the item, the Royal Mail tracker will be updated. In other words, just because the tracker says that, it doesn't mean that it hasn't moved. It may well have left the UK, and be in your area already. Royal Mail usually says it will take 5-6 days for Airmail to get to your part of the world, so don't worry too much yet. It can get delayed by a number of things. Most common is the police/customs. All countries check any mail coming in from another country, and sometimes this can make it a bit late. Also, Royal Mail has suffered a bit of strike action recently, so this can cause delays.