Virgin America
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Alaska and Virgin America Are Cleared to Merge With Minor But Unhelpful Conditions
Can you believe it’s been more than 7 months since I last wrote about the Alaska/Virgin America merger? Way back at the…
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3 Links I Love: Low Cost Canada, Virgin No Votes, Marketing United
This week’s featured link: Can These New Airlines Bring Canada’s Sky-High Fares Back to Earth? – Bloomberg And the answer is, yes.…
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3 Links I Love: Why Southwest Says Its IT Failed, Calls for Southwest CEO’s Head, Talking Alaska-Virgin America
This week’s featured link: Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News Something tells me…
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3 Links I Love: Newark Loses Slots, Alaska’s Regional Name, and JetBlue Looks for Virgins
This week’s featured link: Change of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) Designation – Federal Register Lost in the madness this week was…
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Alaska Acquires Virgin America With an Eye on Growing California
In what can only be considered a most unlikely and incredibly successful exit for Virgin America’s owners, Alaska has agreed to buy…
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Cranky on the Web: An Alaska-Virgin America Merger, Seat Size Rules
Hawaii senators want an end to shrinking airplane seat sizes – Associated Press Apparently Hawaiian lawmakers also think seat size regulation is…
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Republic Agrees to Buy Virgin America
Today’s not a normal posting day, but with news like this, I couldn’t wait. It’s been a couple weeks since we found…
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Across the Aisle From Virgin America’s CEO on His Plan to Force Legacy Carriers to Let Him Use Their Feeder Networks
I was at the International Aviation Forecast Summit (more commonly called the Boyd conference) earlier this week and had the chance to…
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Topic of the Week: Virgin America and Fast WiFi
Virgin America was an early adopter of WiFi but in recent times, other airlines have installed faster options on their fleets. Now…
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JetBlue vs Virgin America: Long Haul Edition (Trip Report)
I told you that you wouldn’t have to wait long for the long haul version of my JetBlue and Virgin America head-to-head…
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JetBlue vs Virgin America: Short Haul Edition (Trip Report)
This trip was the first of three in a two-week period, so get ready for a couple more trip reports down the…
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How Virgin America Will Fly A320s to Hawai’i When Nobody Else Has Even Tried
We’ve heard rumors about it for years, and now it’s finally going to happen. Virgin America will start flying from San Francisco…