Technovia (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is an utterly awesome ad - well done to however did it. My only question is the same as Chris Reed's: why on Earth haven't the agency involved created an official embedded version?
Digital Stuffing (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the Virgin Still Red Hot ad gets played more and makes its way round the blogs, it’s fun to see the different reactions. Chris had a similar reaction to me, bemoaning the fact Virgin Atlantic forgot to put in a good way for the video to be shared over and above the YouTube copies. [...]
NevilleHobson (Free subscription) | yesterday
This ad spot for airline Virgin Atlantic is currently running on TV in the UK: It’s one of the best ads I’ve seen for a long time, one that grabs your attention and keeps it. Once you start watching, you’re hooked. Those 80s icons! Just see how many you can spot, from mobile phones to fashion [...]
Mastercom (Free subscription) | yesterday
After the Ryanair sexy calendar, Virgin Atlantic is launching in UK an old fashion commercial playing on the sexyness of its crew. "Still red hot" advertiser: Virgin Atlantic agency: RKCR/Y&R
Adrants (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
To celebrate Virgin Atlantic's 25th anni, "Still Red Hot" brings us back to June 22nd, 1984, when London's Gatwick Airport changed forever.
Re*Move (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Richard Branson's most famous brand, Virgin Atlantic Airlines is 25 years old this year. And to celebrate and promote itself, Virgin have just launched a cracking new ad campaign here in the UK, complete with the tag line "25 years...
asap news (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Virgin Atlantic announced on Monday the launch of a £6 million campaign aimed at helping travellers “beat the credit crunch blues.” The airline will be celebrating its 25th anniversary later in the year, and the new campaign features television adverts set in the 1980s. Virgin is planning to offer a number of special airfares, campaigns and other [...]
scaryideas (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Virgin Atlantic: 25th Birthday
Cheapflights.com Flight News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Virgin Vacations is offering special package vacations for U.S. travelers planning London trips. The package includes round-trip economy flights to London on Virgin Atlantic, six nights stay in a hotel with a private bath, including hotel taxes and surcharges, and...
Today In the Sky (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Virgin Atlantic is slashing prices and may cut capacity as copes with the current economic crisis, Bloomberg News reports. CEO Steve Ridgway tells Bloomberg the carrier probably will cut capacity, but he adds it will attempt to avoid pulling out...
The Cranky Flier (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
It’s a new year, and that means Lufthansa will probably acquire another 15 airlines before the year is out. If I were a betting man, I would expect to hear SAS and Virgin Atlantic involved in those discussions, but I wouldn’t expect Alitalia. It sounds like Air France/KLM may have won that battle. Of [...]
The English Blog (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
From Media Guardian:Virgin Atlantic has launched a £6m campaign celebrating its 25th anniversary with a retro TV ad harking back to 1984 featuring yuppies, a Rubik's Cube, brick-sized mobiles and headlines about the miners' strike.The TV ad, created by ad...
Digital Stuffing (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
Virgin Atlantic sent out a preview email to all it’s loyalty club members on Friday, inviting them to get an early peek at their new ad, celebrating 25 years, the start of the Still Red Hot campaign. As well as new ads, they’ve got a same going as well. The video is definitely [...]
Softcraze Technology (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Just 8 months after Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London to Amsterdam on coconut and babassu nut biofuel, Air New Zealand has done it also. Air New Zealand, Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Honeywell modified the engines on a 747-400 to run on half Jet A1 fuel and half jatropha oil. The jatropha plant is pretty remarkable. [...]
Cocoposts (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
A lease was signed with Virgin Atlantic for the Spaceport facility 30 miles southeast of T or C. The lines at the very end of the story in the Albuquerque Journal this morning need repeating:The Doña Ana County Commission had...
