Business Traveler Magazine Adds to Virgin Atlantic's Award Winning Year.NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1999-- On Tuesday Virgin Atlantic Airways collected awards from Business Traveler magazine for "Best Business Class" and "Best Economy Class" to add to the recent slew of awards which reveal it to be the highest flier in the industry. Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 , Chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways, was on hand to collect the awards at The Savoy Hotel in London in the presence of leading figures in the travel industry. Commenting on the awards, Richard said, "I am honored every time I pick up another award on behalf of the airline because I know how hard staff have worked to make it happen. "I have always said that the best way to keep passengers happy is to keep our staff happy, and awards like this help to put a smile on the faces of all our staff worldwide. "So far this year we have won a total of 19 awards -- not bad for an airline competing with one who awards itself the title of the 'World's Favorite Airline'." Earlier this year Virgin Atlantic was awarded "Best Transatlantic Airline" by Travel Weekly and the Official Airline Guides (OAG OAG Office of the Attorney General OAG Office of the Auditor General (of Canada) OAG Official Airline Guide OAG Open-Angle Glaucoma OAG Open Application Group OAG Operational Advisory Group ) also gave Virgin a further five awards. Recently the airline's inflight entertainment also won an array of awards. The World Airline Entertainment Association awarded Virgin Atlantic "Best Inflight Magazine", "Best Inflight Entertainment Guide", "Best Inflight Audio Entertainment", "Best Multi-Channel Video Program" as well as the prestigious "Best Overall Inflight Entertainment". In June, Virgin won "Advertiser of the Year" at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France, for a range of print and television ads. Virgin Atlantic serves London from eight U.S. gateways: three times daily from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (JFK); twice daily from Newark, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Orlando; and daily from San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Washington (Dulles), Miami, and Boston; with daily Chicago service scheduled to commence November 1. From London, the carrier serves South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , Greece, Japan, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , the Caribbean and China. For reservations and inquiries, please call Virgin toll-free at (800) 862-8621, or visit the Virgin Atlantic web site at www.virgin.com. |
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