Company Watch - Virgin Group.Sep 3, 2007 Boeing looks to biofuel bi·o·fuel n. Fuel such as methane produced from renewable resources, especially plant biomass and treated municipal and industrial wastes. bi to shrink aviation's carbon footprint A carbon footprint is the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases emitted over the full life cycle of a product or service. . Boeing officials, once skeptical about using biofuel in aircraft, now say they will be ready to test a Virgin Atlantic 747-400 powered on biofuel within the next year. Executives say the time is right for fuel innovation. Aug 29, 2007 Virgin America Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 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". launched twice-daily Los Angeles-New York JFK service Tuesday, its third route. It also flies from its 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 base to JFK and LAX. Aug 31, 2007 Sundance Channel boards Virgin America. The Sundance Channel and new airline Virgin America have struck a deal to create a customized in-flight channel. The so-called Sundance Channel for Virgin America will include independent feature films and documentaries as well as sneak peeks of the channel's original programing before its TV debut. Aug 30, 2007 Virgin America will turn delays into opportunity. Virgin America's maiden flight Noun 1. maiden flight - the first flight of its kind; "the Stealth bomber made its maiden flight in 1989" flying, flight - an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him" was famously delayed by an hour, a harbinger of delays to come that officials at the airline are taking in stride Adv. 1. in stride - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in good spirits . Delays, they hope, will become opportunities for passengers to enjoy the full range of onboard entertainment, as well as the comfort provided by leather seats and food that can be ordered from a seat-back display. Aug 29, 2007 Virgin America, which this month started offering flights in the U.S., joins JetBlue in making its content available through a global distribution system but will not use ARC for settlement. Both Virgin America and JetBlue are ticketless carriers. A Virgin America spokesman said he knows the carrier may lose agents who are loyal to ARC, but it's a risk the airline is willing to take. Aug 27, 2007 It is unclear whether mergers would indeed give traditional network carriers in the USA more pricing power Pricing Power An economic term referring to the effect that a change in a firm's product price has on the quantity demanded of that product. Pricing power ties in with the "Price Elasticity of Demand. . Low barriers to entry and poor customer service at the major airlines have created opportunities for newcomers. JetBlue has become the eighth-largest US airline in just seven years by offering low fares and perks such as leather seats and live television. New start-up carriers such as Virgin America and Skybus, which have both started operations this year, hope to emulate that success. Aug 27, 2007 Some space experts believe Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public. Mission is following the right strategy because the accident was of an industrial nature and not directly related to spaceflight. But eventually customers and the public will demand answers, they say. Virgin Galactic did privately contact its prized customers known as founders, who have paid the full $200,000 to be among the first to experience four minutes of weightlessness weightlessness, the absence of any observable effects of gravitation. This condition is experienced by an observer when he and his immediate surroundings are allowed to move freely in the local gravitational field. . In a telephone interview, Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn said it is not the company's place to comment because the blast occurred in Rutan's backyard. He added that four new customers have signed up since the mishap and none of the astronauts-in-waiting has asked for a refund. Aug 27, 2007 Virgin Galactic showed off its animated video promoting the weightless joys of commercial space travel at a trade show for experimental aircraft last month. But the excitement was overshadowed three days later when a deadly flash Deadly Flash is a fictional computer virus from the .hack series. Information According to the "forums" of the PlayStation 2 game, .hack//Liminality, seven people were killed when the virus had struck their computers. explosion rocked a Mojave Desert facility where top-secret tests were under way for Virgin's yet-unbuilt spaceship. The accident at the remote site run by famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan rattled the fledgling space tourism industry, which has enjoyed a honeymoon period honeymoon period A timespan after diagnosing a disease before its impact is manifest, fancifully likened to the HP of early marriage, during which the husband and wife are most cordial and passionate with each other Diabetology A period of residual β cell since 2004 when Rutan launched SpaceShipOne, the first private manned rocket into space. It also offered insight into how two pioneering companies that forged an unlikely partnership two years ago to fly civilians to space reacted to the tragedy. In a reversal of roles, Richard Branson's publicity-seeking Virgin Galactic kept a low profile while its usually silent partner, Rutan's Scaled Composites LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , took to the Internet to mourn its workers. 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