Virgin Group

Virgin Hotels Collection has officially opened its first address in London – the birthplace of the Virgin Group.

Virgin Hotels Collection boss James Birmingham is pushing his strategy to expand the Virgin Limited Edition collection into urban locations with Group Founder, Richard Branson.

Virgin Galactic is opening up ticket sales once again to the general public starting on 16 February (US time). The aerospace company marked the occasion releasing fresh branding ahead of the start of commercial operations, earmarked for later this year.

Employees of Virgin Atlantic and the company’s sister wholesale vacation specialist Virgin Holidays have put up their hands en-mass to work on a voluntary basis as the businesses work on initiatives to preserve cash and protect jobs during the coronvirus pandemic.

Virgin Hotels, the lifestyle hotel brand by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, has officially opened its third property, Virgin Hotels Dallas.

Virgin Hotels has announced plans to open a new hotel in Miami, Florida, with the venue slated to open in 2023. The lifestyle hotel brand is part of the Virgin Group, founded by Sir Richard Branson, and the hotel will be developed by Blue Jay Capital with BLUR Workshop as the architect.

Virgin Galactic is set to be the first and only publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company after announcing a merger with Social Captial Hedosophia.

In its fifth supersonic rocket powered test flight, Virgin Galactic reached space for the second time in 10 weeks today [22 February, 2019] in the skies above Mojave, California. Spaceship VSS Unity reached its highest speed and altitude to date and, for the first time, carried a third crew member on board along with research payloads from the NASA Flight Opportunities program.

Virgin Group and Virgin Atlantic are set to launch a new Virgin-wide loyalty program, with “unique and differentiated reward opportunities, to reward customer loyalty across Virgin branded companies”.

Virgin Voyages has announced the name of its first oceangoing vessel as Scarlet Lady in a throwback to one of the first planes from Virgin Group’s Virgin Atlantic fleet.