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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
27 Apr 2016 Acquired Virgin America
“There’s two points I want to make here. One, Virgin is sort of only recently profitable, I think.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 27 Apr 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Virgin America
Transcript context
…So yeah, and I think that actually segues into what usually is a short segment for us and I think we’ll probably be short here of what would have happened otherwise. Here, clearly, the otherwise… I mean, Virgin was going to be acquired and the otherwise was JetBlue had acquired them. Now, JetBlue is also an Airbus company, so it would have been a lot easier for them to realize cost synergies. Yeah. There’s two points I want to make here. One, Virgin is sort of only recently profitable, I think. So they launched in 2007, took them three years to have their first profitable quarter. They’re struggling as pitching themselves as both a low-cost airline and an airline that has a really premium service. Yup.…
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