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in America's frequent flyer program Elevate provides award flights and other benefits to frequent fliers.[4]
Virgin America, though the brainchild of British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, is a U.S. airline. By law, no more than 25% of a U.S. airline may be owned by foreign interests and must be under the "actual control" of U.S. citizens;[5][6] VAI Partners owns 75% of the capital stock; the remaining 25% of the company is owned by Virgin Group,[7] which also licenses the Virgin brand to the airline.
Virgin America, headquartered in Burlingame, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, is separate from and as such is under no obligation to work with any companies that share the Virgin brand name. However, Virgin America partners with many of the other Virgin-branded airlines.
Contents  [hide]
1 History
1.1 Opposition and setbacks
1.2 Clearance and take-off
1.3 2010s
2 Corporate offices
3 Destinations
4 Fleet
5 Cabin
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
8.1 Video clips
History[edit]

In early 2004, Virgin Group announced its intent to start a new, United States-based, low-fare airline it named "Virgin USA". At the time, Virgin USA expected flights to begin by mid-2005. After considering several key areas, the San Francisco Bay Area was picked to be the location of its flight operations center, and later its corporate headquarters.[8] The airline also changed its name from "Virgin USA" to "Virgin America". Because it had trouble finding U.S. investors willing to gamble on a new airline, given the state of the already crowded U.S. airline industry, the launch date was pushed back from mid-2005 to early 2006.[9]