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Virgin America
Virgin America, Inc. () is a United States-based airline that began service on August 8, 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards."〔"(On the Record: Fred Reid )," ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', March 19, 2006.〕 San Francisco International Airport is Virgin America's main hub, but the airline also has focus city hubs at Los Angeles International Airport and Dallas Love Field. Virgin America's frequent flyer program Elevate provides award flights and other benefits to frequent fliers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virgin America Elevate )〕
Virgin America, though the brainchild of British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, is a U.S. airline. By law, no more than 25% of a U.S. airline may be owned by foreign interests and must be under the "actual control" of U.S. citizens;〔Under U.S. law, an air transport certificate can only be held by a "citizen of the United States" , where "citizen of the United States" can be defined as "a corporation ... of which the president and at least two-thirds of the board of directors and other managing officers are citizens of the United States, which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States, and in which at least 75 percent of the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons that are citizens of the United States" 〕 VAI Partners owns 75% of the capital stock; the remaining 25% of the company is owned by Virgin Group,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contact Us - FAQs )〕 which also licenses the Virgin brand to the airline.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Virgin America files for IPO. A good time to go public? )〕
Virgin America, headquartered in Burlingame, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, is separate from and as such is under no obligation to work with any companies that share the Virgin brand name. However, Virgin America partners with many of the other Virgin-branded airlines and other Virgin Group brands.
==History==
In early 2004, Virgin Group announced its intent to start a new, United States-based, low-fare airline it named "Virgin USA". At the time, Virgin USA expected flights to begin by mid-2005. After considering several key areas, the San Francisco Bay Area was picked to be the location of its flight operations center, and later its corporate headquarters.〔"(SFO Lands New Carrier Virgin USA — 1,500 Jobs; Airline Sets Sights On Low-fare Market; Corporate Center To Be Based In N.Y. )," ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', June 5, 2004.〕 The airline also changed its name from "Virgin USA" to "Virgin America". Because it had trouble finding U.S. investors willing to gamble on a new airline, given the state of the already crowded U.S. airline industry, the launch date was pushed back from mid-2005 to early 2006.〔"(Start Of Virgin America Delayed; Branson's Airline Apparently Needs More Investors )," ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', April 9, 2005.〕
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