So, is there a DEV team working on a free hack to all the seatbacks?

question: will an email get their faster or slower depending on which direction the plane is flying?

Will all passengers be bathed in purple sex light?

Man is Don Cornelius flying the thing?

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooul plane.

HA! Couldn't have picked a worse airline than USAir. And I thought America West was skimping on the amenities before the merger... I'll drive five hours to fly VA, thank you very much.

mmm, purple
I love you, you love me...

The seats still look small.

what i want to know is why they don't have display showing where the plane is at at all times, with googlemaps or a static background or something with POIs marked. that would be cool and very useful, and make flying slightly less terrible.

awesome now i can use my voip in flight :) voxalot.com !!

@drewheyman: That's just asking for a practical joke showing another blip headed towards you.

@Kaiser-Machead: It would be funny, you could tell your cell mate all about it. In guantanamo

@drewheyman: All longhaul flights I've been on (to Europe or Asia) have a map with a dot to show your plane position and the route it has flown.
No POIs though :p
One flight from Paris to Tokyo even had a camera showing what's underneath the plane (clouds) and then a camera in front of the plane showing the live takeoff and landing (makes it even scarier :S)

@greysky: I don't screw with other people's things, but I do enjoy watching others do it.

Hmmm it works via satellite, no? Wouldn't that mean the latency sucks and it's no good for voip or gaming?

American Airlines has announced they are doing this long before virgin, tho they will likely be rolled out around the same time. and Virgin has allot fewer planes

American Airlines announced this long b4 virgin, however they will likely have it implemented much b4 as they have fewer planes!

@ DREWHEYMAN: They do have that on Virgin America. GPS/Google Maps, you can see where the plane is at all times.

OK. So, I just need to make sure my laptop doesnt have a Sony battery in it before I get on the plane so they dont take it away.

(ba-da-cha!)

There's only one problem with American Airlines. They are HORRIBLE!!!! Virgin Airlines will be more like Jet Blue. American Airlines SUCKS! Good God they suck! So unbelievable shitty. Wait...what are we talking about again?

@drewheyman: Just flew the sf>nyc flight on this airline. The consold does have an option to view a google map that shows where the plane is at all times. It does not show points of interest.

Honestly, since it had satellite tv, I only checked out the map once. The Simpsons were more interesting than watching the plane move one pixel every minute over nebraska.

:D At first sight, the smaller image on the main page looked like a blurred babe, showing her boobies. Yeah... definitely relaxing for people scared by airplanes. "Don't worry sirs, if we crash your face will bounce off something soft. Just take a look at the seat in front of you and you'll see what I mean"

"Um... stewardess? I'm on the first row, there's no seat in front of me..."
"Don't worry sir, I will be sitting right in front of you with my face against yours"
"Whew... Thanks!"

:D :D :D

@DaSmith: I really hope you're no older than 15 or so.

On topic: On the one hand, I'm sad that Virgin isn't flying anywhere I need to go yet. On the other, I have never yet had a need to be online while in a plane. I think I can continue to survive without being connected to the Internet for a few hours when I'm traveling.

I just got back about a week ago from an SF to LA flight on VA. I have to say that Red is an awesome entertainment center, it definately is much better than Delta's console. The service was fast but Red was a little buggy, I had the system go into some weird reboot mode when I exited DOOM, which works well enough on the airline, but they should fix the framerate issues as it does have some FPS lag. They got a great selection of music (Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Daft Punk, etc.) and the seats are much more comfortable on VA than on other airlines (leather!) but the tray table in front of you is made of a cheapy plastic that feels like it would easily break. At first I didn't like the purple/pink lights but a little bit in the flight I liked them compared to the bright lights on regular airlines. No one was in a chat room, oh well. Virgin America unfortunately is in the International terminal of SFO (even though VA flys domestic) and despite the International terminal being fairly new, there is almost nothing in it, except for an okay brick-oven pizzeria, a little coffee stand and the usual snack/magazine store, unlike United's domestic terminal which has everything under the sun.

VA definately is one of the better airlines i've been on (unlike Northwest, which has horrible service), I hope they add on to their city list soon, hoping they add a Seattle flight from LA, as well as Chicago and Miami, and Detroit.

The only thing anyone really wants is enough leg room so you don't get fatal blood clots.

I remember loving Virgin Atlantic as a kid - they had games and personal tvs and everything! It was so sweet! We flew on Virgin for the first time in eight years when we went back to England this summer, and the entertainment system, as you mentioned, was even better than I remember. But there was one small problem. The seats SUCKED. Upright was literally ninety degrees, and reclined was barely the same as United's upright position. And the legroom? Great for a ten year old, maybe, but not for me!