May 17, 2025
Soft launched last August, the property now features the brand’s first Hidden Groves
Virgin Hotels Collection has officially opened its first address in London – the birthplace of the Virgin Group.
Read More…August 25, 2023
Virgin Hotels Collection CEO pushing for gateway cities for Limited Edition projects
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.
Read More…February 16, 2022
Commercial spaceflight launch remains on track for late 2022
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.
Read More…March 24, 2020
Virgin Atlantic staff to work voluntarily for 8 weeks due to COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Read More…December 17, 2019
Texan property joins counterparts in Chicago and San Francisco
Virgin Hotels, the lifestyle hotel brand by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, has officially opened its third property, Virgin Hotels Dallas.
Read More…September 24, 2019
Located in Brickell, the newbuild will feature 250 ‘chambers’, a spa and more
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.
Read More…July 10, 2019
New partner to inject $800 million into Richard Branson’s commercial space business
Virgin Galactic is set to be the first and only publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company after announcing a merger with Social Captial Hedosophia.
Read More…February 23, 2019
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft soars to 295,000 feet
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.
Read More…August 21, 2018
Powered by the currency of Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club
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”.
Read More…July 27, 2018
Genoa drydock flooded for “jumboisation”
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.
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