Difference between revisions of "Category:Virgin America"

From The Internet Movie Plane Database
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "350px|thumb|right|none|Virgin America logo.<br>VX/VRD/REDWOOD. '''Virgin America, Inc.''' is a United States-based airline that began service on ...")
 
 
Line 1: Line 1:
 
[[File:Virgin America logo.png|350px|thumb|right|none|Virgin America logo.<br>VX/VRD/REDWOOD.]]
 
[[File:Virgin America logo.png|350px|thumb|right|none|Virgin America logo.<br>VX/VRD/REDWOOD.]]
−
'''Virgin America, Inc.''' is a United States-based airline that began service on August 8, 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards." San Francisco International Airport is Virgin America's main hub, but the airline also has focus city hubs at Los Angeles International Airport and Dallas Love Field. Virgin America's frequent flyer program Elevate provides award flights and other benefits to frequent fliers.
+
'''Virgin America Inc.''' was an American airline that operated between 2007 and 2018, when it was integrated into [[:Category: Alaska Airlines|Alaska Airlines]]. The airline primarily focused on operating low-fare service between cities on the West Coast and other major metropolitan areas, with higher quality service. It was headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, and operated domestic flights to major U.S. cities, primarily from hubs at San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as a smaller focus city operation at Love Field in Dallas.
  
−
Virgin America, though the brainchild of British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, is a U.S. airline. By law, no more than 25% of a U.S. airline may be owned by foreign interests and must be under the "actual control" of U.S. citizens; VAI Partners owns 75% of the capital stock; the remaining 25% of the company is owned by Virgin Group, which also licenses the Virgin brand to the airline.
+
The airline began operations in 2007 as an independent airline using branding licensed from the United Kingdom-based Virgin Group, which also controls the brand of the [[:Category: Virgin Atlantic Airways|Virgin Atlantic]] and Virgin Australia airlines. The Alaska Air Group acquired Virgin America in April 2016, at a cost of approximately $4 billion and continued to operate Virgin America under its own name and brand until the airline was fully merged into Alaska Airlines on April 24, 2018.
−
 
 
−
Virgin America, headquartered in Burlingame, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, is separate from and as such is under no obligation to work with any companies that share the Virgin brand name. However, Virgin America partners with many of the other Virgin-branded airlines and other Virgin Group brands.
 
  
  

Latest revision as of 05:16, 1 July 2019

Virgin America logo.
VX/VRD/REDWOOD.

Virgin America Inc. was an American airline that operated between 2007 and 2018, when it was integrated into Alaska Airlines. The airline primarily focused on operating low-fare service between cities on the West Coast and other major metropolitan areas, with higher quality service. It was headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, and operated domestic flights to major U.S. cities, primarily from hubs at San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as a smaller focus city operation at Love Field in Dallas.

The airline began operations in 2007 as an independent airline using branding licensed from the United Kingdom-based Virgin Group, which also controls the brand of the Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia airlines. The Alaska Air Group acquired Virgin America in April 2016, at a cost of approximately $4 billion and continued to operate Virgin America under its own name and brand until the airline was fully merged into Alaska Airlines on April 24, 2018.


This page contains all films, TV series, and video games that feature aircraft of Virgin America.

See also

Retrieved from "https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Virgin_America&oldid=162445"