Over the weekend at Sundance, Paris Hilton was introduced to Virgin America’s all encompassing handset and was apparently blown away. How has she not been on a VA flight yet? I take Branson’s latest baby everywhere I go. Everywhere they travel, that is. VA, please add Portland, OR so I don’t have to take Frontier Air back to NYC.

Anyway, Director of Inflight Entertainment and Partnerships, Charles Ogilvie and Paris seemed to hit it off. Paris even went as far as telling Charlie that she’s a fan of mobile technology and text messaging. She also seems to be pretty keen on being a guest for VA’s first in-flight Wi-Fi excursion, which is slated for some time this year. Yeah, so am I. Get in line, biotch.

Remember how I said Virgin America was ‘eh’, well, now you can decide for yourself. VA just shot me an e-mail with a coupon code for 25 percent off all flights booked by December 7th for travel between November 26th and March 19, 2008. There are a few blackout dates: November 21 and 25, 2007, December 19, 2007 through January 6, 2008, February 14, 15 and 18, 2008. This applies to Main Cabin purchases.
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The excitement I felt before boarding my first VA flight was quickly extinguished upon entering the main cabin. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still going to fly VA wherever they fly going forward, but it wasn’t that cool. The lighting was certainly more pleasant than the usual drab on other airlines and the scenery was significantly better as well. The in-flight entertainment system was particularly entertaining even though they had to reboot and I saw that it was running Linux. Unfortunately, my camera was in my bag so I couldn’t snap a pic. I can’t really comment on the service because they pretty much leave you alone after they dole out the first round of drinks. The only thing I found was the Wi-Fi network, but I was sans the password so I couldn’t access it. Maybe it’s rolling out sooner than we thought.