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Virgin America Inc. was a low-cost airline headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, in the U.S. state of California.It primarily focused on operating low-fare, higher-quality service between cities on the West Coast of the United States and other major metropolitan areas.
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 [9] [10] in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
Virgin Group [1] is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970.. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company; however, Virgin's business and trading activities date back to the 1970s.
Alaska bought Virgin Group subsidiary Virgin America Inc. in 2016, two years after the airline penned a licensing agreement with its parent. A judge ordered Alaska to pay an $8 million minimum ...
Alaska Air said in a news release that the merged airline will become the fifth largest in the United States and will help it compete against larger rivals. Alaska Air to buy Virgin America for $2 ...
This is a list of airline holding companies, that either own more than one airline or are the parent company of a single airline.. A company or firm in which the holding company owns a significant portion of voting shares, usually 20–50% or a "minority of share ownership", is known as an associate company.
Following its acquisition of Virgin America, Alaska painted several aircraft, including this Airbus A321neo inherited from Virgin America, in a "More to Love" special livery to commemorate the merger. Virgin America, an airline based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, launched in 2005 and quickly drew a cult-like following. But as a growing ...
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between ...