NOTAM: As some of you may know, Virgin America will be stopping operations in about 24 hours, and I thought it would be respectful to give our condolences to Virgin America and fly one last flight to the hub of the airline that overtook them, Alaska Airlines. Further info can be found out below.
Flight Plan
(the Flight Plan will be p in a couple of minutes)
Route: KSFO - KSEA Aircraft/Livery: Virgin America A320 Cruising altitude: 30,000 Ft Cruising Speed: Mach 0.78 Callsign: please use a Virgin American callsign
If you would like to come, please say so above so I can get you added! Hope to see you come pay your respects to the wonderful airline of Virgin America!
They arenāt officially till april, but there āredwoodā callsign will now be āAlaskaā which basically means they are officially part of the airline
Thanks for letting me know! Just the way you said it, made it seem like there would be no more Virgin America planes flying in the air, and theyād officially be 100% merged.
Oh lol sorry bout that, they will still be using the Livery and lighting, just will be used under the airline name of āAlaska Airlines or callsign āAlaskaā
@RTG113 They arenāt stopping all flights, they are just Stopping the virgin callsign and brand, like they said above. Alaska will be repainting all the virgin planes in the next 2-4 years. and from now on the remaining a321NEO orders will be painted in Alaska!
Basically the Virgin America operating certificate expires and alaskaās Will take over, which means, yes, all boring America flights will be operated under the Alaska group.
Well since this is a farewell event for Virgin America, would it not make sense to at least depart out of the twrminal they currently use? You have C gates listed which are in Terminal 1 at SFO. Virgin America uses gates D50-D55 in Terminal 2.
Iām willing to join if the event is made more realistic by switching to the actual gates that they use.
And a fyi for anyone whoās interested;
The Virgin America brand is officially retired on April 24. Flights will still be operated as Virgin America. The only thing changing short term is the livery. Cabin retrofits begin in October.
