Virgin America comes to Orange County: ‘Twittologue’ with Richard Branson on Wednesday

Virgin America heats up the low-cost air carrier competition in Orange County this week. It is adding John Wayne Airport (SNA) as its ninth destination city, with daily nonstop flights between Orange County and San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

I’ll be interviewing Richard Branson via Twitter on Wednesday morning at 8:20 a.m. while he’s riding “Jane,” one of Virgin America’s 28 planes. The flight will have Wi-Fi, and you can catch our chat on Twitter between @latimestravel and @virginamerica with the hashtag “#vx2oc”.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the topics we’ll be tweeting about in 140 characters or less!

— Wi-Fi in the sky. Virgin America to be the first carrier to offer full fleet Wi-Fi by June 2009 - how will that change air travel?

— Orange County launch - competition heating up

— Psssst … any more VX expansions before the end of 2009? First cities to add in 2010?

— Virgin Galactic and the Race for Space

How to find our chat:

If you have a Twitter account, just follow @latimestravel and @virginamerica and watch our back-and-forth that will begin around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, April 29. You can also go to the Twitter search page and search for the hashtag #vx2oc to see all of our tweets with that tag. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can get one for free — here is their FAQ page to give you the quick run-through.

— Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger (@jenleo)

[Photo: Virgin America]

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