A340 or 747?
Long haul flying on glass is deadly dull. It doesn't matter which you fly - they are just a boring as each other. However, if I was to re-join Virgin having taken voluntary redundancy after 9/11, I would want to go to the A340 depite having flown the 744 before.
Why? Better destinations (the 744 spends a lot of it's time flogging across the Atlantic on East Coast trips with only one night off at destination) and you don't have the control column taking up a lot of your available eating/stretching/newspaper space. I can fully appreciate the Airbus philosophy of the sidestick when it's only used for 2% of the flight!
Mind you, with the 340 going to Oz, I don't think new recruits will have a choice!