Well Hello Virgin America
Posted by kylistah on January 29, 2008
So, if any of you are like me and stick to the popular commercial airlines such as American Airlines, Delta, SouthWest, etc..you’ve never heard of Virgin America. Well, at least I haven’t. After reading an article this morning about how Virgin America caters to techie travelers, I just may have to check them out sometime if I ever fly to one of the cities they’re in. However, I must admit that after visiting their website, I wasn’t all that impressed. Are they a new airline? Are they the same company as Virgin Mobile? I assume so since they share the same logo.
Virgin America, the airline with an electrical socket and Ethernet port at every seat will be offering episodes of Diggnation and other Web shows produced by Revision3
. Some of the other offerings to be shown are
One of the more popular shows, the GigaOm Show will not be included.
So if you’re traveling anywhere to or from New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Diego and Seattle and enjoy such shows, flights with Virgin America will be even better. For those who aren’t really interested in shows such as these, hey…after 5 hours of flying, you’re pretty much ready to watch anything right?
January 29, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I have never flown Virgin America myself but have heard it is quite a cool experience. Virgin America is founded by the same person as Virgin Mobile, as well as Virgin Records, which is the first company I believe. Richard Branson is the founder of the Virgin trademark. He is a very interesting person, and quite the entrepreneur. Check out the Wikipedia page about him.. here.
January 29, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Thanks for the link Zylone!
January 30, 2008 at 12:57 am
they been around for quite some time, they are also expanding into space travel in the next few years. They even market a soda as well, amongst other things.
January 30, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Virgin America? Is that supposed to be some sort of British-high-brow-oxymoronic-wit from Branson, or something?
…Still, sounds interesting.
January 31, 2008 at 5:22 pm
You have to admit, it’s certainly an eye grabbing name. With all the searches (pr0n) going on type in Virgin and voila…business exposure. Nonetheless, one of my old co-workers has flown this airline and blogged about his experience. After reading that, I think (like him) I’ll be sticking with JetBlue. You can read his review here.
May 30, 2008 at 2:02 pm
VirginAmerica=AWSOME but 1 BAD emp#135101 name=IAN
There was two of us with ONE 75 pound lugage checking in an Over weight lugage in San Francisco (SFO)
So, I stepped aside to re-packed it, then weighed 68 pounds. Only to be hassle again and then asked to weigh my carry on.
The carry-on weighed 35 pound for two of us.
The pushy IAN forced us to check our carry-on in because that too was overwieght. Split between two people would have been 17.5 pounds easily.
My Question is “Did IAN have a bad day with his boy friend or girl friend?”
IAN, Doing a job you don’t like is worse than losing your job.