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By: AndrewBrackin

All of your points were spot on, not commenting on those and if they turn them around hopefully they can still succeed. When Virgin Atlantic started they were so close to bankruptcy it was insane,...

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By: brocknordstrom

Well-constructed article, with many good points. Well done.

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By: statspotting

This article suffers from Confirmation Error. Confirmation Error Definition: “you look for instances that confirm your beliefs, your construction (or model) –and find them.”:...

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By: KenG

You may be right about VA pissing off people with kids, but still, they are soooo much better to fly on than UAL or American.  Similarly, I can find a lot of things wrong with Macs.  But their...

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By: markrogo

Virgin America has an incomprehensibly bad frequent-flyer program. It takes about twice as long to earn a free ticket as on legacy airlines. They aren’t really rewarding loyalty; they are selling a...

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By: wjackson

Seems like they don’t really understand business travelers schedules either.  I fly ~150 segments a year – none of them on VA – and am very rarely inconvenienced by families traveling. Old people...

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By: wjackson

Seems like they don’t really understand business travelers schedules either.  I fly ~150 segments a year – none of them on VA – and am very rarely inconvenienced by families traveling. Old people...

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By: wjackson

Seems like they don’t really understand business travelers schedules either.  I fly ~150 segments a year – none of them on VA – and am very rarely inconvenienced by families traveling. Old people...

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By: jholyhead

‘I don’t get upset when I can’t take my child into bars, for instance.’, then you hit them specifically for not letting children into their bar. It doesn’t really feel like you have enough evidence to...

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By: jspepper

It all amuses me, but I seemed to be the only person that didn’t like Virgin and had issues with them when they launched. When you go for hipster, and the marketing department talks about how great it...

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By: jspepper

It all amuses me, but I seemed to be the only person that didn’t like Virgin and had issues with them when they launched. When you go for hipster, and the marketing department talks about how great it...

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By: walkerglewis

Sarah I think this piece is very fair and true and it is pretty outrageous to think that an airline would age discriminate; however, I think your opinions are too biased by your own experience as a new...

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By: markrogo

wjackson Right, and as I said in my comments, their frequent-flyer earning methods ensure that you pretty much don’t earn anything. It’s very weird.

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By: markrogo

jholyhead I love Sarah’s writing — and from what I can tell, her personality — but these things of “I’m experiencing this therefore a lot of people are…” tend to go too far. Most of us travelling on...

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By: jholyhead

markrogo jholyhead My gripe is that her conclusions don’t follow from the evidence she offers,

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By: paulcarr

jholyhead markrogo The ban is on children under 12. That has nothing to do with there being a bar. The drinking age in CA is 21. If they’re letting in 12 year olds, they could let in 6 year olds. They...

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By: paulcarr

jholyhead markrogo The ban is on children under 12. That has nothing to do with there being a bar. The drinking age in CA is 21. If they’re letting in 12 year olds, they could let in 6 year olds. They...

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By: AndrewKaplan

I spoke with a flight attendant on a VA flight a few years ago during a trip from JFK to SFO. At the time he said he was proud that the airline had appealed to people outside its perceived core segment...

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By: Tom Messick

It is too bad that Virgin America did not adopt its namesake’s affinity towards families with children. Virgin Atlantic always seems to go the extra mile in accommodating children.

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By: WKHarmon

People traveling with families is the least of Virgin America’s problems.  They’ve chosen to focus their efforts entirely on startups and leisure markets, both of which mostly lack the high-margin...

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