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On Board Virgin America's First Flight To Vegas

Where: Las Vegas, nv, United States

10/11/2007 at 1:42 PM
Tags: Virgin America, In-Flight Entertainment, Charles Ogilvie, Airline 2.0, Photo Galleries (all tags)

The first of Virgin America's three daily flights between San Francisco and Las Vegas took off yesterday morning and Jaunted was on board. Sir Father Richard Branson led the passengers and crew from SFO to LAS even performing a mid-air wedding mid-flight. No joke, he must have become an Internet minister or something. Branson ended the brief ceremony with "bless all that is good".

The flight was quick and smooth, and despite the fact that Carmen Electra, Kyla Ebbert (yup), and some newlyweds were on the plane, we were still able to concentrate and get an update of the Virgin America cabin and in-flight entertainment experience together for you. And yes, once in Vegas we hopped on a bus and headed to Wynn Las Vegas for the bash. More on that later.

Photos and Virgin America flight review update here.

Here is the quick and dirty flight review:

· Flew California Dreamin' Airbus A320

· VA handing out free headphones now. Choice of earbuds or classic headphones.

· Two months in the plane was clean and still new looking

· Cup holders are gone (bummer!) -- too stiff -- majority rules. VA changes things like this on the fly.

· Safety video debuted. Same spirit as these video.

· In-flight television was more stable than it was in August, but still spotty on Dish Network feed. Bottom line: this isn't going to get that much better unless EchoStar gets their transponders up to speed.

· Multiple bug fixes have been released to the IFE platform since this incident, and the crashing issue appears to be cleared up.

· In-flight suggestion email actually goes directly to Charles Ogilvie's Blackberry. First, that is so cool. Second, now that you know this don't abuse the suggestion box or flood it with foolish requests. Instead, use this as a way to help shape the in-flight entertainment the way you want it.