Originally Posted by Traveloguy
Isn't Branson in the process of setting up Virgin USA? If so, between the Virgin Airline Brands (Nigeria, Blue, Atlantic and USA) and SQ, they pretty much have all the world covered. All they now need is to set up a South American carrier and SQ can exit Star and form a new 'alliance' with the Virgin group.
Quite right, I had forgotten that!
IIRC, the only difference is that Virgin Blue and Virgin America are LLC (no FFtiers, no C or F...), unlike Virgin Atlantic
But where there's a will there's a way!
It is a funny combination though: ultra-conservative SQ with Branson's sexy image
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