Virgin America Takes Travelers To The Sunshine With New Seasonal Routes

Virgin America, the award-winning airline that is reinventing travel, today announces two new seasonal routes daily nonstop service between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL) and four times weekly service between Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) and Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS). Virgin America will offer its award-winning three class service First Class, Main Cabin Select and Main Cabin on these routes with mood-lighting, touch-screen entertainment at every seat and fleetwide WiFi. To celebrate the new routes, Virgin America is inviting travelers to share their best sun-inspired 'selfie' on Twitter using the #ThawOut hashtag for a chance to win two roundtrip Main Cabin tickets on one of these new winter escape routes*. Tickets for the new services are available now at Virgin America's website and 1-877-FLY-VIRGIN with special sale fares for JFK-FLL starting from $99 one-way and BOS-LAS starting from $179 one-way (taxes and fees included and restrictions applying*). All seats are also available for redemption bookings, with no-blackout reward flights on JFK-FLL starting at 3907 Elevatepoints and BOS-LAS starting at 7629 points.

"As the colder months approach, many of our guests in the Northeastern U.S., especially are already planning their winter getaways, so we're pleased to offer a breath of fresh airline on these seasonal routes," said John MacLeod, Virgin America's Senior Vice President of Planning and Sales. "This is the first time Virgin America has offered nonstop flights between Fort Lauderdale and New York as well as Las Vegas and Boston. With our moodlighting, award-winning guest service, personal entertainment and power outlets at every seat, plus WiFi across the entire fleet, we think guests will agree that Virgin America is the perfect way to escape to these popular destinations."

Additionally, the airline announces today that it will operate two extra roundtrip frequencies weekly between Las Vegas-New York (JFK) over winter and early spring to bring weekly frequencies on this popular route from the current seven to nine.

For more details on the Twitter #ThawOut contest, visit Virgin America's Flyer Feed blog and the official rules site.

Virgin America's 2014-2015 new seasonal services are as follows:

December 18, 2014 April 28, 2015

• JFK- FLL: depart 8:00am and arrive 11:05am daily.
• FLL- JFK: depart 9:15am and arrive 11:55am daily.

January 8, 2015 April 28, 2015

• BOS-LAS: depart 10:30am and arrive 1:40pm on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• LAS-BOS: depart 2:50pm and arrive 10:40pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• LAS-BOS: depart at 3:35pm and arrive 11:25pm on Thursday.

January 5, 2015 April 28, 2015*

• JFK-LAS: depart at 11:35am and arrive 2:35pm on Wednesday and Thursday.
• LAS-JFK: depart at 3:10pm and arrive at 11:00pm on Monday.
• LAS-JFK: depart at 3:35pm and arrive at 11:25pm on Wednesday.

*In addition to existing daily roundtrip schedule on this route.

Virgin America offers sleek, tech-forward aircraft cabins with custom-designed seating, fleetwide in-flight WiFi, signature moodlighting, power outlets near every seat and the unparalleled Red in-flight entertainment system. The Redplatform offers guests on every Virgin America flight their own seatback screen, with 25 films, live TV, interactive Google Maps, videogames, a 3,000 song library and an on-demand menu, which allows flyers to order a cocktail or snack from their seatback any time during a flight.In addition to a Main Cabin that offers custom-designed leather seating with a deeper, more comfortable pitch, theairline's exclusive 8-seat First Class cabin features plush white leather seating with 55 inches of pitch, 165 degrees of recline and lumbar massagers. The carrier's Main Cabin Select option offers 38-inches of pitch, free food and cocktails, an all-access pass to media content, dedicated overhead bins and priority check-in/boarding.

Since its 2007 launch, Virgin America has created more than 2,800 jobs and expanded its network to include Austin, Boston, Cancun, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth (ends Oct. 12, 2014), Dallas Love Field (commences Oct. 13, 2014), Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Los Cabos, Newark, New York (JFK), Orlando, Palm Springs (seasonal), Portland, Puerto Vallarta, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C. (IAD and DCA). Virgin America will launch service from New York's LaGuardia Airport later this month on Oct. 28, 2014.