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Virgin Australia Launch Photographs

May 4, 2011 by admin 5 Comments

  Virgin Australia’s new Boeing 737-800 & Airbus A330-300 arrives in Sydney for the Virgin Australia brand launch.     Virgin Blues New Boeing 737-800      Boeing 737-800 named Bondi Beach close up             Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 in foreground and Airbus A330-200 in background           Virgin Australia Launch Richard Branson and John Borghetti wave the Australian Flag on the new Airbus A330-200   Some shots of Richard Branson, John Borghetti and the flight crew after both the new Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A330-200 touched down in Sydney.         Richard Branson Two Thumbs up for the Launch of Virgin Australia     Richard Branson and John Borghetti   Richard Branson and John Borghetti’s announce the transformation for Virgin Blue into Virgin Australia                 The new Virgin Australia Crew Uniform     The new Virgin Australia Crew Uniform   Virgin Australia Boeing 737-200 Interior Cabin Photos Virgin Australia 737-800 Business Class Seat that will begin service as Premium Economy     Business Class seat on the Boeing 737-800     Economy Class Seats on the Boeing 737-800   Virgin Australia Airbus A330-200 Interior Cabin Photos      The Business Class Seat on Virgin Australia’s Airbus A330-200     Virgin Australia Business Class Meal on the Airbus A330-200      Virgin Australia Business Class Meal on the Virgin Australia Airbus A330-200   The Business Class Seat fully reclined on board Virgin Australias new Airbus A330-200     Virgin Australia Airbus A330-200 Economy Class     Virgin Australia Airbus A330-200 in-flight entertainment screen in Economy Class More coverage of Virgin Australia launch day can be seen here: Virgin Australia is Officially Launched Watch out QantasVirgin Australia TV CommercialVirgin Australia Business Class Airbus A330-200 Cabin Overview  

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Virgin Australia is Officially Launched Qantas Watch Out

May 4, 2011 by admin 4 Comments

    As speculated here last month Virgin Blue was today officially renamed to Virgin Australia at today’s media event at Sydney Airport, on hand to announce the re-branding was Virgin CEO Richard Branson and Virgin Blue now Virgin Australia’s CEO John Borghetti.     Virgin CEO Richard Branson gives two thumbs up to Virgin Australia         Virgin Australias Airbus A330-200 in the background with the tail of the 737-800 to the right The Virgin Australia name change is a small part of John Borghetti’s plan to change the company into a full service airline, below I have outlined some of the elements of the rebranding that featured at today’s Virgin Australia launch    The first and most obvious change is the name and company logo, as reported here last month the new Virgin Australia logo follows the design elements of other Virgin Franchises around the world with the word Virgin in red on the tail down the fuselage from the front of the aircraft is the name virgin australia in an all lower case blue/grey font.     Sir Richard Branson Announcing the new Virgin Australia Brand   Points to take our of the media launch event were:   One Virgin Australia Brand All Virgin brands in Australia (Virgin Blue, V Australia and Pacific Blue) will be rolled into the Virgin Australia brand by the end of the year, with Virgin Blue brand already operating as Virgin Australia this only leaves V Australia and Pacific Blue Velocity Loyalty/Frequent Flyer Program to be revamped by the end of the year with a new name Business Class to be expanded to more aircraft and more routes Alignment of cabin product across all aircraft Sir Richard and John Borghetti believe their cabin product in both Business and Economy will beat Qantas in terms of price and quality   The next most obvious element of the Virgin Australia re-branding is Virgin Australians’ new Aircraft with the inclusion of a business class cabin.   Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 The first aircraft to taxi over to the media event was the new Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 named Bondi Beach this aircraft is the latest generation 737-800 that has 176 seats in total with 168 seats in Economy class that are laid out in a 3-3 seating configuration and at the front of the aircraft is Virgin Australia’s 737-800 Business Class seats that will initially operate as Premium Economy the 8 seats in Premium Economy that are laid out in a 2-2 seating config, I was told that this aircraft will go into service tonight so anyone lucky enough to be flying Premium Economy on this aircraft will actually be sitting in what will be a Business Seat.   It should be noted that this aircraft does not have any in-seat inflight entertainment systems installed at present, these will be added in the future, for tonight first flight passengers will have access to portable IFE units.     The Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 […]

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Virgin Atlantic Celebrates 25th Birthday in Style

June 22, 2009 by Ben Hoffman Leave a Comment

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Virgin Atlantic Launches Pitch TV

April 2, 2009 by Ben Hoffman Leave a Comment

  Virgin Atlantic have launched a brand new inflight TV program titled Pitch TV, in which will give up coming Entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to the flying public. The full press release from Virgin Atlantic can be read below:   As part of its 25th birthday celebrations, Virgin Atlantic is launching a new show onboard its inflight entertainment system.  PitchTV will be shown onboard all Virgin Atlantic flights from June 2009 and also be available on www.virgin.com.   http://entrepreneur.virgin.com/pitchtv/.  The online community will vote for their favourite video pitches and each month, the winning videos will feature as part of Virgin Atlantic’s PitchTV show onboard flights – gaining exposure to the thousands of business professionals who regularly fly Virgin Atlantic. Anyone interested in hearing more about the most popular entrepreneurs’ business ideas will then be able to get in contact and maybe help take their ideas further.   Each PitchTV show will also feature exclusive interviews with guest entrepreneurs answering questions posed by Richard Branson’s Twitter and blog followers. So far, confirmed guest business personalities include Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse), Michelle Mohan (Ultima), James Caan (Dragon’s Den) and Tony Hseih (Zappos).   Sir Richard Branson, President of Virgin Atlantic commented:   “When I was starting out, I wish I could have had the chance to pitch my business ideas directly to people who could help make my ambitions a reality. We can now make that happen for you.   “If you’re a budding entrepreneur, we’re giving you the unique opportunity of getting your ideas by top business professionals from around the world onboard Virgin Atlantic planes as well online at virgin.com.   “Who knows – among the viewers might be someone with the power to bring your idea to life.’   Entrepreneurs should film themselves delivering their best pitch possible; making sure it’s no longer than 2 minutes. Then they simply upload their video pitches here: http://entrepreneur.virgin.com/pitchtv/

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