Big Day Tomorrow for Virgin America

Virgin America

Anyone flying Virgin America tomorrow? Let us know about your flight experiences.

Oh, and yes, apparently the final approvals for the airline to fly tomorrow just came in this afternoon. Whew. Talk about cutting it close.

Meanwhile, the AFA-CWA, which represents 55,000 flight attendants in the U.S. said it was filing preliminary court papers in San Francisco today  to challenge the U.S. government’s approval of Virgin America.

AFA spokesman William McGlashen (Hey there Bill) said Virgin America had “circumvented” the rules on domestic control – a precedent that could threaten American aviation jobs, according to the challenge.

“We strongly believe that to protect our members, these laws need to be upheld,” he said. “It is ultimately, we think, a job security issue.”

He added: “We can’t allow our laws to be circumvented and we can’t allow our jobs to be threatened.”

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