If you have 4000 hours on a Boeing based at LGW why on Earth would you leave it to join Virgin? Really why, oh why, oh why? The new flight deck will feel the same after a month from line training, they have
all routes that will quickly become boring, the pay is average by most industries standards at best and the company has one of the worst job securities for a pilot that I know - of all the pilots I know that have been made redundant 90% have come from there. Take your rejection as a gift, stay where you are and make your next move a sensible one. Virgin has little in the way of a future. If you want long haul go to emirates - like several redundant virgin pilots I know of have had to do. Why do you think Virgin 747 pilots left to join BA?