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Founded | January 26, 2004 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | August 8, 2007 | ||||||
Ceased operations | April 24, 2018 (merged into Alaska Airlines) | ||||||
AOC # | VQIA199L[1] | ||||||
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Focus cities | Dallas–Love | ||||||
Frequent-flyer program | eleVAte | ||||||
Fleet size | 67 | ||||||
Destinations | 31 | ||||||
Parent company | Alaska Air Group (2016–2018) | ||||||
Headquarters | Burlingame, California, U.S. | ||||||
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Virgin America Inc. was a low-cost airline headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, in the U.S. state of California. It primarily focused on operating low-fare, higher-quality service between cities on the West Coast of the United States and other major metropolitan areas. It operated both domestic and international flights, with hubs in San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as a smaller focus city operation at Love Field in Dallas, Texas.
Originally established in 2004, the airline began operations in 2007 as an independent airline company using branding licensed from the United Kingdom–based Virgin Group, which also controls the brand of the Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia airlines. The Alaska Air Group acquired Virgin America in April 2016, at a cost of approximately $4 billion and continued to operate Virgin America under its own name and brand until the airline was fully merged into Alaska Airlines on April 24, 2018.
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