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Onboard Virgin America's Freefest flight
It's a lovely sunny day up at 32,000 feet on Virgin America flight 108 between Los Angeles and Washington DC, the special chartered flight ferryiing a squadron of volunteers, media and Virgin Folk out to this year's FreeFest.In collaboration with Virgin Mobile this year, Virgin America donated the use of an entire Airbus A320 to bring forty lucky volunteers and their guests out to FreeFest, on an all expense paid tour of the festival.
Volunteers were able to register their charitable work with Virgin Mobile over the course of the summer, after which each was entered into a raffle to make the journey. The lucky winners are being given a free flight, accomodation and VIP access to this year's FreeFest.
As the momentum on Flight 108 picks up you can feel the electricity starting to build among the passengers. Playstation has set up a "gaming lounge" in first class where they're hosting a rock band competition, Kyocera and Virgin Mobile are wandering around the aircraft giving away gadgets and the martinis are flowing freely. It's going to be a wild ride this weekend -- we'll keep you updated.
Filed under: Festivals and Events, Airlines
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lester Aug 30th 2009 5:08AM
Sounds like it will be an fun flight! Virgin seem to be giving everything away! its awesome that they doing all this stuff for the public, but it seems they've started subsidizing welfare deals with paying customer's cash. I use virgin mobile and recently heard about some $10 120 minute deal, but then a friend then told me its only available to people who qualify for welfare. awesome deal, wish it was available to other low income people, like students! Now everyone will think I’m a “welfare” qualifier when i pull my virgin phone out my pocket. They’ve attached an old cardboard sign to all virgin customers necks! I’m pissed off... Enjoy freefest
Merle Lindt Sep 26th 2009 9:30PM
Virgin needs to come clean. I keep hearing about this $10 a month plan available for those who can’t afford to pay more but I don’t see it on their web-site.
What’s up with that? If they have it, let’s see it!
How about an investigation
It's worse than sociali, it communistism!!