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Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards". San Francisco International Airport is Virgin America's principal base of operations. Virgin America's frequent flyer program is known as eleVAte and, while not officially launched, it is expected to run on a "dollars spent versus miles accrued" model.

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Frequently Flying - Is American’s New Boarding Process Destined for Failure?

Source: Boarding Area

Basically, American Airlines is now allowing those passengers without carry-ons requiring overhead bin space to board ahead of Group 2. The test of this new process, rolled out systemwide last Thursday, was a resoundin ...
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Virgin America lets you buy other passengers drinks, make pals

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Burlingame, Calif.-based airline’s touch-screen entertainment units on every seat now have a feature that lets passengers buy drinks, meals and snacks for fellow passengers and follow it up with a text message. If you are feeling really charitab ...
Full article at: Los Angeles Times  More like this  4 hours ago

Is this how people use Virgin America inflight messaging system? The funniest messages purporting to be between airline passengers

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Clever or creepy? The airline allows passengers to chat to one another and send flirty messagesAt 35,000 feet there's no escaping those unwanted attentionsFinally, something else to do instead of sleeping, watchi ...
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Summer travel? Think beyond airfare

Source: The State

As travelers start thinking about winging off to summer vacations, many could learn a few things from expert flyers to ensure they get the best value for their money when booking flights. Price and flight schedules are clearly the primar ...
Full article at: The State  More like this  22 hours ago

Will American's New Boarding Process Work? It Failed at Virgin America.

Source: Forbes

Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two ...
Full article at: Forbes  More like this  1 day ago, 1:23pm CDT

News: News Ticker: May 17

Source: The Austin Chronicle

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Virgin America Partners with Silvercar

Source: Auto Rental News

Virgin America, the California-based airline, announced this week that it has partnered with Silvercar, an automated car rental company that provides one model, the Audi A4. Virgin America's Elevate frequent flier me ...
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