Today we have called on Border Force to take action as international visitors to the UK are being greeted by wait times of up to two hours 38 minutes to clear immigration. Recent high profile events such as the Royal Wedding and the favourable exchange … Continue reading 
Love Island winner Dani Dyer has gone back to her roots and served the first pint at our new pop-up pub, The Joint Venture. The Joint Venture pub celebrates the 230 US destinations that we fly to with our partners Delta Air Lines by serving 230 … Continue reading 
It’s possible to find complete peace and tranquility in London, if you know where to look. We take a journey through the capital’s calmer locales from north to south, east to west, and reveal the other side(s) of the metropolis. City Limits With its … Continue reading 
Some of us spend so much time dreaming of far away shores, we forget we have some pretty spectacular destinations of our own. So here in celebration of the best British beaches, we present a small selection of favourites from the multitude on offer… Harlyn … Continue reading 
“At Virgin Atlantic, when people ask about my weekend, I talk about what I’ve been doing with my boyfriend rather than saying ‘my partner’. That’s really important to me. I’d be less happy if I couldn’t be fully myself. I’d undoubtedly be worse at my … Continue reading 
A boat ride around Manhattan is a couple of hours well spent. Just being out on the water is reward enough but if you happen to be a pontist – that’s someone who appreciates the aesthetics and engineering of bridges – you’re in for a … Continue reading 
In the third of our series of city-inspired holiday reads, we move up the west coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The city by the bay is the setting for a string of great books, from reflections on the Gold Rush era to … Continue reading 
Last week at the Farnborough Airshow, Virgin Atlantic became one of the founding signatories of a new “Women in Aviation & Aerospace Charter”. This is an industry-wide initiative where businesses across the UK’s aviation and aerospace sectors are committing to build a more balanced and … Continue reading 
The second in our series of great city-inspired novels takes us west to Los Angeles. Despite being blessed with year-round sunshine, it’s one of the shadiest cities on earth – in literary terms at least. Noir fiction and hardboiled detective stories are an intrinsic part … Continue reading 
July 18 is Mandela Day, the annual international day observed in honour of Nelson Mandela. Today would have been the 100th birthday of the political leader, and centenary events are taking place around the world, including the symbolic Walk Together in Johannesburg. We’ve already re-named … Continue reading 
It was the year 2000 and, in a huge coup, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair introduced Nelson Mandela onto the stage of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. His speech was everything you’d expect a Mandela speech to be. Impassioned, inspiring and, in parts, amusing. … Continue reading