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How does a free trip to Hawaii sound?
It may still be hot and summery where you are, but come winter, a trip to Hawaii will probably sound mighty nice.
Especially if it’s all-expenses-paid.
Sound good?
To celebrate the launch of Virgin America service from San Fransisco into Honolulu on November 2 and into Maui on December 3, 2015 the airline has teamed up with Airbnb for a contest with prizes that include attending the inaugural celebration with Sir Richard Branson.
Details about entering are here – but the grand prize includes a seat for you and a guest on the inaugural flight from San Francisco to Honolulu (with a return flight, of course) a three-night stay at a beachfront Airbnb estate with Sir Richard as the Airbnb host on the first night, invitation to all launch celebration activities, car rental, Go Pro camera and 12 hours of lessons from a professional kiteboarder.
Deadline for entering is September 30, 2015, with the drawing taking place on October 6. If you don’t win the grand prize, don’t give up: second and third place prizes are pretty darn nice as well.
Good luck!
Get smart: free classes on Virgin America flights
Courtesy National Library of Australia, via Flickr Commons
You might learn something new next time you take a Virgin American flight.
Starting February 1, free audio and video lectures from the popular series The Great Courses will be available on the airline’s Red in-flight entertainment system.
The series library runs to more than 530 titles and covers everything from history and music to science, literature, language, health, nutrition and personal development.
Virgin America will be offering these course samples:
• Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Inexplicable Universe; from the course, The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (video)
• Cook Like a Pro Chef: Lessons From The Culinary Institute of America; from the course, The Everyday Gourmet: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Cooking (video)
• Sneferu – The Pyramid Builder; from the course, Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
• Um, Well, Like, You Know; from the course, The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
• Did Slavery Really Cause the Civil War?; from the course, The Skeptic’s Guide to American History
• The Enlightenment and an Introduction to the Classical Era; from the course, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
• What is Big History?; from the course, Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
• Junk-Food Monkeys: What Happens When Baboons Eat like Us?; from the course, Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science
• Becoming a Spy; from the course, Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History
• Making High-Stakes Decisions; from the course, The Art of Critical Decision Making
• Not All Carbs Are Created Equal; from the course, Nutrition Made Clear
• Creative Nonfiction: Writing Great Beginnings; from the course, Writing Creative Nonfiction
• How People Respond to Incentives; from the course, Thinking Like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision-Making.
Dallas Love Field gets a re-boot
Here are some snaps from Dallas Love Field, where celebrations were underway and finishing touches to the terminal were on display in celebration of the lifting of the Wright Amendment on Monday, October 13. The ruling, created in 1979 to foster growth at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, had imposed flight restrictions on long-haul flights from Love Field.
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Big day for Dallas Love Field
It’s a big day for Dallas Love Field.
The Wright Amendment – which since 1980 has imposed restrictions on air service and operations at Love Field – lifts today, October 13, 2014.
To mark the day, Southwest Airlines Chairman, President and CEO Gary Kelly will be taking boarding passes and sending off the airline’s first non-restricted flight of the day: Flight #1013 to Denver.
Southwest, which currently operates 16 of Love Field’s 20 gates, begins nonstop flights today from Love Field to Denver, Chicago, Baltimore/Washington, Washington, D.C. (Reagan National), Orlando, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles (LAX). On November 2, eight additional nonstop flights will start to New York (LaGuardia), Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa Bay, Phoenix, Orange County, and San Diego, Nashville, and Atlanta.
Virgin America, which is launching service at Love Field today from two gates, is kicking off the day with a very short “Downtown Express” flight that will travel from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Dallas Love field with Sir Richard Branson on board and an inflight performance by Grammy award-winning country star Kacey Musgraves.
I’m going along for the ride and will share details from the day here.