Our very own Mark Johnson is reporting live from Virgin America's first "Entourage Air" flight today, and he's lifecasting everything you need to know about the amenity-crazed experience. What's happening right this second at JFK?

Here at Hangar 12. Finally. Dom is here--the Champagne not the questionable Entourage character.

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While thinking about in-fight WiFi yesterday, we realized that Southwest Airlines has been awfully quiet on that front lately. So we went ahead and asked the carrier via Twitter how the trials planned for this summer were going.

Apparently, the going is slow:

We will have four aircraft in the 4th quarter of 2008! Get excited!

Just four? Out of more than 500 737s? Well, we do have to admit four is a lot better than one!

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We've heard of restaurant owners banning digital cameras, but will they be able to stop the Twitterati from posting mini-reviews between bites? Probably not!

The newly opened Parc is already getting mixed reviews on Twitter. Annie Heckenberger recommends going elsewhere if you're looking for killer escargot:

btw - for those of u wondering, the decor/environment @ parc is a 10. the food is a 3. if u want good brasserie food, stick to perrier.

Another Philly phoodie seconds that thought:

parc at night is just stupid crazy loud...although a whos who of philly.

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Twitter, the oft-busted-but-still-fun microblogging platform, is quickly becoming the go-to place for airline news from tech-savvy carriers. Latest example? Southwest Airlines' mysterious tweet about a big announcement coming later today.

Says the LCC:

Twitter followers should know first! Big announcement on www.blogsouthwest.com in about an hour....consider yourselves informed!

The last big Southwest announcement we remember from Twitter was about Monster energy drinks. Here's hoping this one's a bit more interesting!

Update: It is more interesting. The airline is looking for a "blog-o-spondent" for Nuts about Southwest.

Are you on Twitter? You should follow us!

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Virgin America apparently doesn't have enough going on with constant fare sales and giving away trips to space. So the carrier has launched the Virgin America Community--and as you can see, the airline made the announcement via Twitter.

So far it looks like VA is simply soliciting info from fliers; as far as we can tell, you can't yet see what other folks have written in.

Three general conversation topics are listed: Essential Guide To... (tips and recommendations in Virgin-served cities), Notes from the Cabin (wacky tales of in-flight experiences) and Mind of a Traveler (stories from the road). There's even a place to add photos and videos, for you multimedia-crazed citizen journalists. Who knows, maybe the best of the best will end up on RED next to Boing Boing TV and Diggnation.

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Southwest Airlines has revamped its corporate blog, Nuts About Southwest, and the airline is burning up the social media sites to promote it. We heard about it via Twitter, which is fast becoming our go-to spot for up-to-the-second travel news.

The new site also prominently features Flickr photos, podcasts and a "video blog" space. At the bottom, you'll find links to SWA's pages on Facebook and Linkedin, proving once again that the PR types at the airline know what the kids like.

News about Southwest still makes up a bulk of the blog content, in the form of both press releases and conversational posts. There's no getting around the fact that this is a marketing effort for the airline, but it's by far the best airline blog around.

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OK, so we're totally obsessed with Twitter these days. The best way we've heard it described is as a global watercooler. And who doesn't like gossiping about new routes and poorly dressed passengers with a bunch of other travel junkies?

We've been spending more and more time on the site, chatting with people like Jaunted member CaroPhila, travel troubleshooter Chris Elliott and even the PR peeps from Southwest Airlines.

Wanna get in on the shoptalk? All you've gotta do is follow us.

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