Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

Virgin America’s “Fly Girls”

I’ve posted in the past about a new CW “reality” show, “Fly Girls,” which revolves around the lives of some Virgin America flight attendants, describing their careers as glamorous and exotic (yeah, an eight hour overnight in Seattle sounds really glamorous and exotic).
Well, check out the trailer:
Um I’ll refrain from really commenting, but are the [...]

Free wifi on Virgin America between November 10 and January 15!

As the title states, Virgin America will be offering free wifi on all flights between November 10 and January 15. Apparently it’s sponsored by Google. Very cool!

Double Elevate points on Virgin America through December 15

Virgin America is offering double Elevate points for travel through December 15. Registration and bookings are required by October 18 to qualify.
Zzzzzzzzz. I was really hoping they’d match, but I figured they were too hip. After all, who needs bonus miles when you can have mood lighting instead. ;)

The most glamorous description of the US airline industry in the past 30 years?

Well, there’s going to be a new “reality” show on the CW entitled “Fly Girls,” which will be about the lives of Virgin America flight attendants. I couldn’t help but chuckle at this:
“This show is about real, down-to-earth young women who happen to have landed in an exceptionally glamorous, high-flying career filled with exotic locations [...]

Virgin America’s Virgin Americans

Ah, Virgin America’s marketing department, which at times seems to be made up of immature 14 year olds (that is, when they’re not working on deals with Banana Republic), is at it again. Check out this series of ads, no promotional videos, no, ok I don’t quite know what, here. Don’t get me wrong, some [...]

Free status!

US Airways is offering free Silver status for 90 days in their Dividend Miles program if you register by August 31. Also, if you fly 7,500 miles or 10 segments during the trial period, you’ll keep Silver status through February 2010.
Along the same lines, Virgin Atlantic is offering free Silver status for signing up in their Flying Club [...]

What’s holding V Australia back….

Check out this article which discusses a major problem Virgin Australia is having:
A Sydney Morning Herald report says that when Virgin Blue/V Australia ordered Boeing 777’s to operate on the Pacific, it made what appears could have been a fatal error of judgement, by ordering aircraft with smaller rear cargo doors, which means that means [...]

Insanely cheap paid business class fares to London!

It’s common to see business class fare sales in summer, where tickets between New York and London are around $2,000 all-in. Well, it seems like British Airways started a “2-for-1″ sale, which has been matched by most of the major airlines. With plenty of advanced booking and a Saturday night stay, you can find business [...]

Scored two Virgin Atlantic Upper Class award tickets!

And unfortunately they’re not for me! I managed to get two award tickets in Upper Class for a weekend trip from New York to London for my brother and his girlfriend. I used ANA miles, and the availability I saw on virginatlantic.com mirrored the availability that ANA showed. As usual they had to request the [...]

Virgin Atlantic complaint letter

I’m sure nearly everyone has seen this by now, but for the two of you who haven’t, check out this complaint letter that someone wrote to Richard Branson regarding the meal service on a flight from India.
I’m sure I’m not the only that’s dying to know what the compensation was.