Delta and Virgin Atlantic Make Major Announcement

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Today’s big travel news was another major shake-up in the airline industry: Virgin Atlantic and Delta have announced a joint venture with Delta investing $360 million in Virgin Atlantic to acquire a 49% stake in the airline. The merger is expected to be completed by the end of 2013 and should offer some great opportunities that [...]

Submit Your Best Travel Tip And Win “Convenient” Goodies

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As a collective group, if  each tourist had a dollar for every time they said “Damn, I wish I knew … ” while abroad, my guess is they’d challenge a lottery jackpot. Oprah would likely call this your ‘Aha!’ moment. Unfortunately, ‘Aha!’ moments, after the fact, in the air or overseas are not very helpful. [...]

Travel Contests: Win a seat on Virgin Atlantic’s first Vancouver flight

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This week’s featured travel contests: Win a seat on Virgin Atlantic’s first Vancouver flight Win a trip for two for 6 days and 7 nights in Rome, Italy Win tickets on KLM LAN Airline’s Mother’s Day Contest Belgraves – Instagram Contest Win a Dance-Filled Getaway from Promax Nutrition! JdV Hotels celebrates 25 years with a [...]

Virgin Atlantic/NYC/Canada/DTW

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 Staying in an airport hotel overlooking the runway and then seeing all the flight crews in the lobby really got me all fired up to get on a plane (like I need any extra help). I saw airlines I rarely get to see such as Air Mauritius, Air Seychelles, South African Airways, Sri Lankan Airlines, [...]

Rome, L.A. & Manhattan Beach In Style

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Greetings from Southern California! So I needed to be back home in Los Angeles for an important meeting and to catch the Manhattan Beach Open. Instead of taking Alitalia’s nonstop service from Rome to LAX I went through London on two UK-based airlines, British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic. Yeah, I know, two of the [...]

Toronto to SFO/LAX on Virgin America

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Greetings from sunny Southern California! There’s no place like home, and this week the spectacular weather made it even more special. I will show you some pics of my fun week, including the Hermosa Beach Open (volleyball), along with a trip report of Virgin America’s newest route: Toronto to LAX/SFO. VIRGIN AMERICA GOES INTERNATIONAL A [...]