Video Review: Virgin America Plane Tour

Virgin America launched back in August 2007, and since then, it has quickly become a favorite among the most wired travelers and technology enthusiasts like myself. I was on its inaugural flight from San Francisco to Seattle where I met with Virgin America's CEO and President David Cush who told me the company was planning to launch a few more destinations, including one from Los Angeles to Seattle, as well as Internet access in the fourth quarter.

All flights have mood lighting, nine-inch video screens, an in-flight entertainment, power plugs, Ethernet jacks, and leather seats. Seats in the first class cabin recline and even have lumbar massagers. Ben Patterson gave us an good overview of his Virgin America not-so-great experience back in October, but it looks like the in-flight system may have improved a lot since then. Unlike Ben, I actually got to play with the RED system throughout the flight which worked great, except for a few glitches I experienced when flipping through the 18 channels available via satellite.

Charles Ogilvie, the Director of Inflight Entertainment, walked me through the entire RED system, which has new movies on-demand, video games, music, seat-to-seat chat, on-demand food menu, and an interactive Google Maps application that tracks your flight and tells you how much time is remaining in the flight.

Instead of reading all about it, why don't you check out the video I created of my experience. It's a bit long, but it covers pretty much anything you want to know about the flight. I really hope they add more flights soon, because it's going to be hard flying on other airlines after this.

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