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Commercial News

Virgin America Going Away But Maybe A Bit Of Their Style Will Remain at Alaska

The integration of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America is underway. Alaska’s recent acquisition of Virgin America created the fifth largest domestic airline. Now the Alaska Airlines brand is getting refreshed…

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Virgin America Retires Its “Redwood” Callsign and Its Operating Certificate

Yesterday marked the official end of the existence of Virgin America as a stand-alone airline from an operating certificate perspective. While you’ll continue to see Virgin America branded aircraft and…

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Commercial News

Alaska Airlines Takes Over SF Giants Partnership–Will Introduce New Special Giants Livery

Alaska Airlines unveiled a new special baseball-themed livery late Wednesday. The announcement appeared to be tied to the fact that Alaska will be taking over for Virgin America as the…

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Virgin America Celebrates 10 years of Hipster Flying Before The Airline Fades To History

Virgin America is celebrating 10 years of bringing a rockin vibe to flying! On August 8th, 2007 the airline flew its first flight between San Francisco International Airport and Los…

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Retirement In Sight For Virgin America–And That Is Ok

An Avgeek recounts Virgin America’s professionalism on the day Alaska announced that the brand will be retired. On 21 March I had the pleasure of flying on the red tail of…

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Alaska Airlines to Aquire Virgin America in $2.6B Deal

Transaction will create the 5th largest airline in the United States. While you were sleeping, the United States commercial airlines business grew a fifth major carrier. In a deal announced…

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WTF? Virgin America Reveals a New Logo

Virgin America went to considerable lengths to put together this gag for April 1. One description of consuming Internet offerings is drinking from a fire hose. There’s just so much…

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Week In Review: What Happened On Avgeekery.com

The week that was at Avgeekery.com. Here are links to the videos and stories that have been posted. Click and enjoy. Avgeekery.com takes a look back with links to its…

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The Word Is That Virgin America Is For Sale

Richard Branson’s “boutique airline” Virgin America apparently is for sale. Psssst. Hey, you … yeah, you. … Wanna buy an airline? If any of our readers have a couple of…

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Blog

Virgin America is adding Airbus A321 NEOs to their fleet

Earlier today Virgin America announced that they will add 10 Airbus A321 NEOs to their fleet to compliment their fleet of 58 Airbus A320s and A319s. In a statement, Virgin America…

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REPORT: Virgin America To Receive 2 Dallas Love Field Gates

A well respected aviation blog by the Dallas Morning news is reporting that Virgin America is likely to receive the 2 gates at Dallas Love Field. The two gates are…

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Virgin America wants to fall in LUV with Dallas

The competitive landscape at Dallas Love Field is about to change this October. Starting on October 13th, many of the old Wright Amendment restrictions that limited service at Dallas’ airport…