Virgin Airlines is coming to Portland. As of June 5th, the low-rate airline will offer two trips to Los Angeles International Airport and one trip to San Francisco International Airport daily. Sure, it’s not that exciting, but the company puffed up its announcement with some interesting bonuses.
Along with a promo video (see below), Virgin kicked off a contest to name one of the planes in their new PDX fleet.
Check out the adorable and surprisingly artsy clip Virgin put together to announce its Portland arrival:
This announcement comes on the heels of Alaska Airline’s petition to add a nonstop flight from Portland International Airport to Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, endorsed this morning by Mayor Sam Adams via Twitter.
So their flights are only going to be to two different cities?
“It also asked its social media followers to submit “Portland-themed” plane names for its 50th aircraft”
Oh just stop
This works for me, since I live in LA but all of my friends are in Portland.
what, is summer footage too expensive? all I got from that was that Portland is rainy and gray. which is, of course, true. but it doesn’t make for good marketing, me thinks.
unless the plan is to DISCOURAGE people from flying here to hipsterheaven on Virgin, which I wholeheartedly support.
They were JUST shooting this late last week. I saw them set up for the food cart clip on either Thursday or Friday.
They should raise the rates a dollar so Eric Cantona can film this in the summer.
Where was that guy who wears Mickey ears and sells toys along Hawthorne? Disney suits might want to fly up and chat with him.
You forgot to mention it’s FREAKIN $99 if you buy a ticket before Thursday!