{"id":8140,"date":"2010-08-24T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2016-12-16T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:46:17","slug":"virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9645\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9645\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9645 \" title=\"Virgin America. Credit sillygwalio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\" alt=\"Virgin America. Credit sillygwalio\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Virgin America passenger carrier. Credit sillygwalio.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Privately-held Virgin America Airlines would have you believe it&#8217;s going great guns as it celebrates its third anniversary in August. But the facts, as reflected in the first quarter results that the airline released last month, tell a different story. Yes, the airline registered $147 million in revenue in the first quarter, a 46 percent jump compared to the first quarter of 2009. And, yes, its load factor passed 75 percent despite a huge jump in seat capacity. Yet it rang up $22 million in operating losses compared to $30 million in the first quarter of 2009. Its net loss for the quarter was $35 million, only fractionally better than the $40 million net loss it rang up last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Flights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_self\">Flights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Business Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=roadwarrior&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_self\">Business travel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Joe Brancatelli is editor and publisher of <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joesentme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JoeSentMe.com<\/em><\/a><em>, a non-commercial Web site for business travelers. Copyright 2009 by Joe Brancatelli. Licensed by contract for Orbitz use.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1kNDAxZTdiZDY4ZTkyNmI4ZmQ2ZDk2M2NkOTUxZGJjMA==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Brancatelli Privately-held Virgin America Airlines would have you believe it&#8217;s going great guns as it celebrates its third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-virgin-america"],"acf":{"api_active":null,"api_title":null,"api_excerpt":null,"api_featured_image":null,"api_lob":null},"posts_api_cpm_point":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Joe Brancatelli Privately-held Virgin America Airlines would have you believe it&#8217;s going great guns as it celebrates its third [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orbitz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Orbitz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jbrancatelli\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orbitz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orbitz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"jbrancatelli\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"jbrancatelli\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40\"},\"headline\":\"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Virgin America\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\",\"name\":\"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":375,\"caption\":\"Virgin America. Credit sillygwalio\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Orbitz\",\"description\":\"Travel Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40\",\"name\":\"jbrancatelli\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/orbitz-logo2-150x150.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/orbitz-logo2-150x150.png\",\"caption\":\"jbrancatelli\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/author\/jbrancatelli\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz","og_description":"By Joe Brancatelli Privately-held Virgin America Airlines would have you believe it&#8217;s going great guns as it celebrates its third [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/","og_site_name":"Orbitz","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Orbitz\/","article_published_time":"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"jbrancatelli","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@orbitz","twitter_site":"@orbitz","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"jbrancatelli","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/"},"author":{"name":"jbrancatelli","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40"},"headline":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money","datePublished":"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/"},"wordCount":169,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg","keywords":["Virgin America"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/","name":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money | Orbitz","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg","datePublished":"2010-08-24T11:00:04+00:00","dateModified":"2016-12-16T17:46:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Virgin-America.-Credit-sillygwalio.jpg","width":500,"height":375,"caption":"Virgin America. Credit sillygwalio"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/virgin-america-is-nearly-three-and-still-losing-money\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Virgin America is nearly 3, and still losing money"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/","name":"Orbitz","description":"Travel Blog","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6336bfce2270767f7a8c12ffd12f8c40","name":"jbrancatelli","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/orbitz-logo2-150x150.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/orbitz-logo2-150x150.png","caption":"jbrancatelli"},"url":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/author\/jbrancatelli\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}