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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Concerts, Oysters, Air Transportation Industry, Guggenheim Museum, Awards and Prizes
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Many fliers willing to pony up for better seats, poll finds
Most of us will put up with a cramped middle seat on a short flight. But on trips more than three hours long, we are ready to crack open our wallets and pay for a window or aisle seat. That is one of the findings of a recent Harris Interactive poll of...Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Virgin Group, Ltd., Harris Interactive Incorporated, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Entertainment
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Virgin America lets you buy other passengers drinks, make pals
Virgin America is making it easier to befriend other passengers at 35,000 feet. The Burlingame, Calif.-based airline’s touch-screen entertainment units on every seat now have a feature that lets passengers buy drinks, meals and snacks for fellow...
Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., Entertainment, New Products
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Virgin Radio launch rocks Beirut
The Lebanon Daily StarCreator of the Virgin Group empire Sir Richard Branson joined more than 1,700 revelers this week in Beirut's White nightclub to launch 89.5 FM Virgin Radio. Flanked by rows of high-heeled models, Branson toasted the opening of the top 40 radio station...Tags: Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Music, Radio Industry, Beirut (Lebanon), Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Virgin Atlantic posts record full-year loss
ReutersLONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - British airline Virgin Atlantic said tough economic conditions over the last year dragged it to a record annual loss. The airline, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, on Thursday reported a loss of 93 million pounds...Tags: Olympic Games, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Break from U.S. carriers lifts passenger spirits
Flying foreign airlines can be so much more pleasant than our domestic options. On a recent KLM flight to Amsterdam, the Dutch airline behaved as if it was in the customer-service industry, not merely transporting a bunch of people from one point to...
Tags: Air France-KLM, Virgin Group, Ltd., Air Transportation Industry, France
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SpaceX signs lease agreement at spaceport to test reusable rocket
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.SpaceX, the Hawthorne rocket maker, has found a new home for flight testing on its reusable rocket. The company has signed a three-year agreement to lease land and facilities at Spaceport America, the state-owned commercial launch site located 55...Tags: Satellite Technology, Space Programs, SpaceX, Virgin Group, Ltd., NASA
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A balanced guide to success
The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition. Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only curbs damaging...
Tags: Book, Human Interest, Psychologists, Jon Huntsman, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
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Under Armour founder Kevin Plank sees himself as the underdog
Kevin Plank may have sold the first Under Armour shirts from the back of his car, but as his reach has grown, so too have his wheels: These days, he jets around the world, recently to five Asian cities in six days, but managed to get back home to...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Under Armour Inc., Tom Brady, Corporate Officers, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Piers Morgan developing drama about Fleet Street tabloids for Starz
Art is imitating life again. CNN personality and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan is going to try his hand at producing a drama about the British tabloid business in the 1970s. Morgan has signed on as an executive producer of "Fleet Street," a drama...Tags: Piers Morgan, Satellite and Cable Service, AMC (tv network), Virgin Group, Ltd., News of the World
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Gig Harbor agency on the front lines of space travel
The Peninsula Gateway (Gig Harbor, Wash.)Gig Harbor native and Peninsula High graduate Stefan Bisciglia joined his father's travel agency, Specialty Cruise & Villas, in 2007, with the hopes of expanding the business' horizons. A few years later, Bisciglia's agency has broached the final...Tags: Space Programs, Virgin Group, Ltd., Tourism and Leisure, Science and Technology, Trips and Vacations
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Supersonic flight brings Virgin Galactic closer to space tourism
With a sonic boom that resounded above the Mojave Desert, a rocket plane belonging to British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space. On Monday the company's...Tags: Space Programs, Virgin Group, Ltd., Transportation, Tourism and Leisure, Science and Technology
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