Flight attendants at Virgin America, the only major airline based out of San Francisco International Airport, are seeking to unionize.The 650 employees of the airline will vote in December on whether to join the Transport Workers Union of America, which represents staffers on several other domestic carriers, including Southwest Airlines. Read More

Nigerian stowaway Olajide Noibi flew from New York to Los Angeles via Virgin America airlines, using an expired boarding pass in someone else’s name. He somehow got past a federal security checkpoint where travelers must show their identification and boarding passes. Although Noibi aroused flight attendants’ suspicion, he successfully exited the flight and was only arrested by the FBI when he tried to pull the same trick on a later flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta. Read More

Virgin America Inc., the low-fare carrier partly owned by U.K. billionaire Richard Branson, is set to begin flights at Chicago O’Hare after an almost three-year effort to obtain gates at the second-busiest U.S. airport.Daily nonstop flights will start May 25 between O’Hare and both San Francisco International and Los Angeles International airports, the closely held airline said Thursday in a statement. Read More