[Pursuit: 6 Cents] Sweet, Sweet Virgin. With cheeky marketing, fantastic amenties and an out of the box approach to a stale industry it is no surprise that Virgin’s come in and dominated their small sliver of the market segment. Having flown them now more than 15 (20?) times in my NY-SF journey (and to Vegas and LaLa land too), I feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon and pile my 6 cents on my Virgin experiences to-date on top of those already shared by the masses… Lights are a bit cheesy, music even cheesier RED system is good, works 80% of the time Food ordering = awesome (although still not great in quality) Chat system is strange - more on that and weird sexual advances later Flight times to SF/NYC are limited but generally pretty good for a business traveller Prices are fantastic if you’re 14 days out Airline crew are either really nice or really rude. I have had both. There’s one gentleman in particular who does the NY/SF trip a lot (blonde, over-gelled hair - SUPER FREAKING RUDE) Boarding them at JFK is a biotch during peak times because it is near an International boarding area - major language barriers with security Pet friendly for the most part  (see over-gelled man reference above who provided my only bad experience to-date) Definitely more friendly and accomodating, generally speaking, than Jet Blue [I’m so not a first class flyer as you can tell from the view above. Maybe someday….]

[Pursuit: 6 Cents] Sweet, Sweet Virgin.

With cheeky marketing, fantastic amenties and an out of the box approach to a stale industry it is no surprise that Virgin’s come in and dominated their small sliver of the market segment.

Having flown them now more than 15 (20?) times in my NY-SF journey (and to Vegas and LaLa land too), I feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon and pile my 6 cents on my Virgin experiences to-date on top of those already shared by the masses…

  • Lights are a bit cheesy, music even cheesier
  • RED system is good, works 80% of the time
  • Food ordering = awesome (although still not great in quality)
  • Chat system is strange - more on that and weird sexual advances later
  • Flight times to SF/NYC are limited but generally pretty good for a business traveller
  • Prices are fantastic if you’re 14 days out
  • Airline crew are either really nice or really rude. I have had both.
  • There’s one gentleman in particular who does the NY/SF trip a lot (blonde, over-gelled hair - SUPER FREAKING RUDE)
  • Boarding them at JFK is a biotch during peak times because it is near an International boarding area - major language barriers with security
  • Pet friendly for the most part  (see over-gelled man reference above who provided my only bad experience to-date)
  • Definitely more friendly and accomodating, generally speaking, than Jet Blue

[I’m so not a first class flyer as you can tell from the view above. Maybe someday….]