SF News Alaska Promises To Keep Virgin Amenities, Signs Partner Deals With Giants, Kevin Durant Alaska Airlines knows that many folks are going to miss Virgin America, so they're trying their best to ease your worries—by copping some of Virgin America's signature style and reaching out to
SF News RIP Virgin America Airlines, Which Alaska Is Officially Killing Off In Two Years Alaska Air Group, which for roughly $4 billion last April acquired Virgin America and its purple-lit cabins and generally happy customers, is doing away with the popular boutique brand in two years time,
SF News Virgin/Alaska Adding Daily Non-Stop Flights From SFO To New Orleans, Nashville, Philly Virgin America, which remains a much swankier subsidiary of Alaska Airlines since the company was sold last year, will be adding 13 new daily non-stop routes out of San Francisco and San Jose
SF News Alaska Airlines Still Being Cagey About Plans For Virgin Brand Following news in April that Virgin America was being acquired by Alaska Air Group, fans of Virgin and its purple-lit cabins have been pretty sad some of them litigiously so about the prospect
SF News Alaska Airlines To Lay Off SF-Based Virgin Employees, Likely Vacate Burlingame Headquarters When news of Alaska Airlines' planned purchased of Virgin America first broke in April, fans of the Burlingame-based airline were despondent at the likely watering down of all the amenities that made Virgin
Arts & Entertainment Virgin America To Remain Its Own Separate Brand For Now, Maybe Forever In a talk in front of an aviation professionals' group in New York, Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden said "the thing I’m losing the most sleep over with our merger" with Virgin
SF News [Update] Virgin America Sold To Alaska Airlines As reported last week, Virgin America put itself up for sale, and the boutique airline owned in part by Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson has reached a deal to be acquired by Alaska
SF News SF-Based Virgin America Mulls Takeover Offers From JetBlue, Alaska Airlines While this could spell sad news for fans of Virgin America and their guaranteed-to-be-pretty-comfortable and wi-fi-equipped planes, the company has reportedly put itself up for sale and now Bloomberg reports that they've received
SF News [Updated] Austin-Bound Virgin Flight Out Of SFO Returns To Gate After Passenger Threatens Suicide Virgin America flight 218 from SFO to Austin had to turn around while taxiing for takeoff around noon today after a passenger made an apparent suicide threat. Passenger (and angel investor) Erik Berg
SF News Frenzied, Masturbating Bay Area Man Allegedly Tried To Open Airplane Door Mid-Flight This report originally appeared on LAist.com A Virgin America flight headed from Boston to L.A. Monday had to stop in Omaha because of an allegedly drugged man who was masturbating mid-flight,
Arts & Entertainment Virgin America Signage Will Try to Keep Your Holiday Travel Nightmare Humorous SFO-based Virgin America has been trying to keep things light and breezy by letting gate agents get creative with their boarding screen messaging over the past couple of years. One example from a
Arts & Entertainment New Virgin America Plane Boasts Giants Logo, Brian Wilson's Beard At the San Francisco Giants media day event this morning Burlingame-based, nightclub-inspired airline Virgin America unveiled the latest member of their fleet of snazzy airliners named "Fly Bye Baby". And it's got Brian
SF News San Francisco Still Exporting Chihuahuas To New York City Despite previous rescue efforts by Virgin America and S.F. Animal Care & Control, it seems San Francisco still has a surplus of the pocket-sized pooches thanks to the sort of people who
SF News Virgin America's Latest Canine Rescue Effort: "No Chihuahua Left Behind" San Francisco is currently serving as a temporary refuge to some much desired East Coast chihuahuas. Arguably the cutest victims of the Hurricane Irene flight delays, Virgin America has launched “Operation Chihuahua” to
SF News A Spaceship Lands at SFO with Gavin Newsom Flying Wingman Sure this video from Wired of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo flying over San Francisco yesterday, carrying SpaceShipOne Two underwing is basically a commercial for Virgin Galactic and we should be scolded for posting such
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