Virgin Atlantic has announced that passengers will soon be able to make and receive mobile phone calls.
I’m not sure about you, but I find the idea of having an effigy of Sir Richard Branson floating in my beverage a tad creepy. The fancy new ice cubes, shaped like the British entrepreneur’s severed head, will adorn the drinks upper class customers of Virgin Atlantic so that Sir Richard can “travel with you in spirit”.
In the richest of rich person problems, airline and Formula One team owner Richard Branson just lost a bet to airline and Formula One team owner Tony Fernandes. The stakes? He’s got to be a flight attendant on an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur to London.
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Virgin Atlantic has a new ad out! And it makes flying look like something between attending the VMAs and a scene from 300. But let’s keep it really real here, Virgin – you’re cool, but flying is not like this.
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How does Virgin Atlantic make an aging Boeing 747 look like it just rolled off the lot? Four days, dozens of workers, litres and litres of paint, and one pretty sweet time-lapse video. That’s how.
