Virgin America Sets Maiden flight date!!!

Virgin America has now began selling tickets for its first flight which will happen on August 8th.
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The airline's inaugural flights are scheduled to take off Aug. 8 from Los Angeles and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrive at roughly the same time late that morning in San Francisco, which will serve as Virgin America's hub.

I cant Wait for this now. Is there anyone from here goin to be on the inaugural flights.

I Think the Dream Landing would be a paralell landing on both of San Franciscos runways at the same time.



Seem to be very good prices cant wait to see the pictures of it with the passengers on it.

Tickets for the flights were expected to go on sale Thursday around 3 a.m. PDT through Virgin America's Web site and customer service number, 877-359-8474. A one-way ticket between Los Angeles and San Francisco will start at $44, while one-way tickets for the San Francisco-New York flights will start at $139.

Excellent news! It finally looks like its going to get off the ground, after what seems like an age in limbo with just a flashy website to its name.

I'm hoping they introduce SFO-LAS and SFO-MCO routes [:w]

Cheers!

Dean

This is great news! Are they likely to code share with VS does anyone know?

[honey lamb]

I believe the roll-out dates for other routes are as follows:

Eff Aug 8th.
SFO - JFK 2x daily
SFO - LAX 5x daily

Eff Aug 19th
3rd SFO-JFK flight

Eff Aug 29th
LAX-JFK 2x daily

Eff Sep 8th
4th SFO-JFK flight

Eff Sep 26th
SFO-IAD 2x daily

Eff Oct 10th
SFO-LAS 3x daily

Eff Oct 24th
LAX-IAD 2x daily

[fozzyo]

Oh I really do hope they play one of the best Disco songs ever by Patsy Gallant on the flight!

Good luck to them!

[mcmbenjamin]

I want a fare war! Come on UA and match VAmerica's fares!

[Bazz]

Have booked already Link Pete may have just pipped me but at $378.80 for 2 incl. taxes for First in those massage seats, I have no problems with that. Enjoy

[n]

tried to book lax to sfo for 8th august, but flights are already sold out, bummer...

Originally posted by fozzyo
Oh I really do hope they play one of the best Disco songs ever by Patsy Gallant on the flight!

Good luck to them!

Oooh what a call back, fabby song.

Am now trying to book SFO to LAS in October!

[mcmbenjamin]

so it is WAR. A fare war. IAD-SFO-IAD on UA for $150.00 all in

[Bazz]

...but it is not only about price, is it! if you want to fly on old metal with mediocre service, tatty seats, poor food (if they offer any) and a crap IFE system, there is plenty of choice amongst the legacy carriers. If you want the opposite then fly VX [y]

[ChuckC]

Well said, Bazz. Just booked my first flight on VX.

Chuck-

[mcmbenjamin]

Oh I agree. My flight to LAS in December is in VA First. But this is a hell of a deal. UA is shit with crap service and crap everything. (Ok so part of this flight is to top-off my UA Mileage Plus account for my Oct 2008 IAD-EWR-SIN-SYD in J, so part of my mile whoring).

So I book VA for November in SF

Any news on the launch party?

Originally posted by manymiles
Any news on the launch party?

Well despite earlier reports of the opposite, SRB will be in attendance.

mcmbenjamin

I think the real interesting thing is when do UA drop the $1800 business class PS fare down to 1000?

[ChuckC]

Originally posted by sky
mcmbenjamin

I think the real interesting thing is when do UA drop the $1800 business class PS fare down to 1000?

It may not be a permanent drop, sky, but wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of promotional rate from UA (and AA too).

Chuck-