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Want to complain about Virgin Atlantic Airways? Did something go wrong in the airport, on the runway, or with the service? Share your story here.
You can see more complaints in the Complain About Your Airline Experience series here.

If you’ve got a tail of praise for Virgin Atlantic Airways — a story about something that went right with that airline — go on and share it here.

Virgin Atlantic Airways , yes, they have a sense of humor. It’s good to see large corporations with a sense of humor, so I can give them a pass on their latest promo: Who’s the top Jetrosexual. You read that right.

They just coined the worst coined phrase.

But, like we know, they have a sense of humor. They came up with the eleven commandments of Jetrosexuals. Here they are (written in regular english, not that “thou shalt” speech they have on their site):

1. You will have your passport ready to go at moment’s notice.
2. You will have a favorite airport and a good explanation about why it’s your favorite.
3. You will not talk your seatmate’s ear off.
4. You will never hold up the security line.
5. You will be able to order beer in at least six different languages.
6. You will spend no more than five minutes in the airplane bathroom.
7. You can pack a week’s worth of clothes in one carry-on bag.
8. You don’t own an inflatable neck-pillow.
9. You have at least one passport stamp from a country that now goes by a different name.
10. You travel Economy sometimes, just to stay humble.
11. You fly to move business and culture forward.

I was thinking of putting together an online poll that allows you to rate how many of these you match up with. Stay tuned.

Virgin Galactic launches space tourism: Commercial flights into outer space start in 2008. It will cost $200,000 for the trip, which includes five minutes of weightlessness (that’s $40,000 per minute). Lots of people are interested in going up (no joke). Interesting bits in the article on the topic:

• Only 450 humans have been in outer space
• 4000 pilots applied for the 75 jobs available to steer the space craft. Oh man would that not be the sweetest job on the planet? “By day, I pilot space craft. By night … “