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Virgin Atlantic iPhone App Helps Fear Of Flying

Reuters | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology


SYDNEY (Reuters) - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic. Long-haul airline Virgin Atla...

Virgin Atlantic Anniversary Ad Prompts Claims Of Sexism

Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/09/virgin-atlantic-ad-sexist-ofcom | Mark Sweney | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media


Virgin Atlantic's high-profile 25th anniversary retro TV ad campaign, featuring crowds ogling its glitzy female cabin crew, has prompted complaints to...

Airline Fuel Surcharge Rip-Off... No Refunds

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business


Blake Fleetwood

When Airlines lower their fuel surcharges, they should offer a refund -- or at least credit -- to passengers who paid the fee earlier -- simply as a gesture of thanks and goodwill.

Virgin America Joins EPA Climate Leaders Program

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green


Stefanie Michaels

Virgin America Becomes First Commercial Passenger Airline to Join Program When isn't Sir Richard Branson and his uber-brand making news? Whether it ...

Let's Follow Richard Branson's Green Example

Stefan Roberts | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green


Stefan Roberts

What Branson intends is not just a huge luxury resort. It is a huge GREEN luxury resort. The whole island will be powered by wind and hydro power, and aims to be completely and utterly carbon-neutral.

Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business


In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

New Rocket Aims for Space Tourism Market

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age plan to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship ...

Branson Launches Online Charter Plane Service

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Richard Branson's first charter plane experience gave him the idea to start commercial airline company Virgin Atlantic Airways (VA.UL). Some 25 years...

Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet

AP | THOMAS WAGNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


LONDON — Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it ca...

Sir Richard Branson Tells Virgin Atlantic Strikers To Take A Hike

Times | Marcus Leroux | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Sir Richard Branson has provoked outrage by telling Virgin Atlantic staff who are threatening to go on strike that they should "consider working elsew...