Virgin Goings-On

One of my favorite airlines (Virgin Atlantic) had announced that they're joining forces with their spin-off little sister airline (V Australia), and allowing people to earn and use miles from either airlines' loyalty program. Huzzah! I guess. If I lived in Australia and liked to travel a lot to the West Coast and Europe then it'd be a great deal. Since I don't it's just a neat deal. Still, since Virgin Atlantic doesn't have a direct flight from the West Coast to Aussie-land, I can fly V and still get miles I can apply to another jump across the Atlantic at a later date. So all cool there.

In related, but only slightly related news, shamelessly copied from USA Today, Virgin America, which by the way is oppressing me by continuing to not fly to Denver, damn them, has been won a survey for best domestic airline by Travel and Leisure magazine.

One does wonder about the survey as it appears that one of the Top 10 domestic airlines is WestJet which is actually a Canadian airline and doesn't fly between any US destinations. I'm sure WestJet is a wonderful airline but I'd hesitate to call it domestic. Sure I guess I could fly from Honolulu to Yellowknife, and who wouldn't, but then I'm there in Yellowknife and all I have to wear is shorts and Billabong t-shirts. And I imagine that Yellowknife is a dress-up kinda town, and I'll just feel out of place.

At this point I'd probably have to worry about people writing impassioned e-mails about how I'm dissing Yellowknife, but since I doubt I've managed to get the readership numbers into double digits, I'm thinking I can sail right through this controversy.