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Virgin Atlantic Airways
Since it was founded twenty-six years ago, Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain's second largest airline serving the world's major cities. Virgin Atlantic is the quintessential Virgin story. It has every ingredient: the small newcomer taking on the giant and complacent establishment, the people's champion introducing better service and lower costs for passengers with a reputation for quality and innovative product development.
From those early days the airline has gone from strength to strength. Now based at Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports, it operates longhaul services from Heathrow to New York (Newark and JFK), Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Boston, Miami, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, Lagos, Sydney, Dubai, Chicago, Nairobi & Mauritius.
Virgin also operates services from Gatwick to Orlando, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, Las Vegas, Grenada, Tobago, Cuba and Jamaica (Montego Bay & Kingston). It also operates a service from Manchester to Orlando, Barbados and St Lucia.
Virgin Atlantic is highly committed to reducing environmental impacts where they can by becoming a more efficient business, leading the industry to practical and technical solutions and engaging, inspiring and empowering their staff and customers to help meet these challenges. A few of the ways in which Virgin have more recently demonstrated this commitment to green tourism include; their introduction of a Carbon Offsetting scheme, Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore’s setting up of a new Global Science and Technology prize - The Virgin Earth Challenge, and Branson’s $3bn Climate pledge.
