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Many fliers willing to pony up for better seats, poll finds
Most of us will put up with a cramped middle seat on a short flight. But on trips more than three hours long, we are ready to crack open our wallets and pay for a window or aisle seat. That is one of the findings of a recent Harris Interactive poll of...Tags: New Products, Harris Interactive Incorporated, Virgin Group, Ltd., September 11, 2001 Attacks, Transportation Security Administration
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Virgin America lets you buy other passengers drinks, make pals
Virgin America is making it easier to befriend other passengers at 35,000 feet. The Burlingame, Calif.-based airline’s touch-screen entertainment units on every seat now have a feature that lets passengers buy drinks, meals and snacks for fellow...
Tags: New Products, Virgin Group, Ltd., Entertainment
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: No need to leave Fido behind Vacationers traveling to Orlando don’t have to leave Fifi or Fido behind with Rosen Hotels & Resorts’ VIP ¿ Very Important Pet ¿ package...Tags: Networking, Mattel Inc., Styx (music group), USA Today, Arts
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Break from U.S. carriers lifts passenger spirits
Flying foreign airlines can be so much more pleasant than our domestic options. On a recent KLM flight to Amsterdam, the Dutch airline behaved as if it was in the customer-service industry, not merely transporting a bunch of people from one point to...
Tags: Air France-KLM, Air Transportation Industry, Virgin Group, Ltd., France
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SpaceX signs lease agreement at spaceport to test reusable rocket
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.SpaceX, the Hawthorne rocket maker, has found a new home for flight testing on its reusable rocket. The company has signed a three-year agreement to lease land and facilities at Spaceport America, the state-owned commercial launch site located 55...Tags: Rocketry, NASA, Virgin Group, Ltd., SpaceX, Space Programs
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A balanced guide to success
The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition. Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only curbs damaging...
Tags: Jon Huntsman, Jr., Psychologists, Human Interest, Book, Health and Medical Professionals
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Under Armour founder Kevin Plank sees himself as the underdog
Kevin Plank may have sold the first Under Armour shirts from the back of his car, but as his reach has grown, so too have his wheels: These days, he jets around the world, recently to five Asian cities in six days, but managed to get back home to...
Tags: Michael Phelps, Baltimore Ravens, Ray Lewis, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Annapolis
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Piers Morgan developing drama about Fleet Street tabloids for Starz
Art is imitating life again. CNN personality and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan is going to try his hand at producing a drama about the British tabloid business in the 1970s. Morgan has signed on as an executive producer of "Fleet Street," a drama...Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., News of the World, Satellite and Cable Service, AMC (tv network), Piers Morgan
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Supersonic flight brings Virgin Galactic closer to space tourism
With a sonic boom that resounded above the Mojave Desert, a rocket plane belonging to British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space. On Monday the company's...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Explosions, Travel, Emergency Incidents, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic goes supersonic in rocket test
British billionaire Richard Branson’s commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space when a test pilot cracked the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. For the first time, the company's SpaceShipTwo...Tags: Boeing Co., Explosions, Virgin Group, Ltd., Emergency Incidents, Space Programs
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Editorial: A donation spurred by creativity, technology
With the lightning speed made possible by the use of social media, Ascencia, the city's winter homeless shelter, became the apparent beneficiary of a $2,000 gift from British magnate Sir Richard Branson. It was an extraordinarily simple effort that...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Virgin Group, Ltd., Social Media
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Twitter, Richard Branson and some serendipity leads to aid for homeless shelter in Glendale
One tweet led to another and on Wednesday, British business magnate Sir Richard Branson agreed to donate $2,000 to Glendale's winter shelter, which has been hitting its 80-bed capacity nightly despite a bare-bones budget. Branson on Tuesday tweeted...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Virgin Group, Ltd., Social Media, Google+
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