Watch the video to hear Richard Branson explain why Virgin Atlantic has avoided international alliances up till now.
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I'll be interviewing Sir Richard Branson in mid-air between San Francisco and Toronto on one of Virgin America's first international flights Tuesday, and we'll videotape his answers and publish them here starting Wednesday.
If you could ask Richard Branson any question, what would it be? Share it here and you could win two free round-trip tickets on Virgin America anywhere the airline flies.
A reader writes: When accumulating miles or transferring points, look at foreign airline partners' award charts
Admit it. You wish you knew the answers to all those burning mileage-award questions that didn't get answered by Randy Petersen in our FlyerTalk Challenge. So do I. But there were about 100 of them. Who could possibly have the time, the patience, the stomach, the sheer mileage obsession, to answer them all?
Have you ever wrongly been charged a fee at an airport check-in counter? It happened to me on Monday in Kona, Hawaii. The Hawaiian Airlines check-in agent insisted we owed $40 in luggage fees. I insisted we did not.
I was supposed to fly to Hawaii today. Then the snowpocalypse hit. My Continental flight out of Newark was cancelled. And suddenly I was faced with the daunting prospect of trying to reschedule my family of four on flights from Newark to Honolulu to Kona and back during the Presidents' Week holiday.
If you're hitting an airport this holiday season, you should follow these steps to minimize the damage that flight delays and cancellations can do to your travel plans.
I've got an early holiday gift for ten lucky readers: Free tickets to a December 1 New York City sneak preview of Paramount's "Up in the Air," starring George Clooney. Not only are we giving away ten pairs of tickets to the movie screening but, in keeping with the spirit of the film, we're also going to solve your most frustrating frequent-flyer-mile problems.
The moment I boarded my Continental flight from Newark to Houston on Thursday, panic set in: I couldn't find my iPhone...
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