If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect jobs across the country.

Once approved by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, the airline expects to operate 33 Airbus planes to destinations as yet untold (as are the design plans for their SFO men's rooms.) As holiday flights this year are so prohibitively expensive that many Bay Area folks are opting not to travel (at least, that's what we hear), the arrival of a new low-cost carrier might be just what the travel doctor ordered.