You may be aware of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group’s attempt to create an American domestic airline to go with their Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia airlines. I’ve made a couple blog posts about the airline in the past. Virgin Group was not the majority owner of Virgin America. Based on some articles I read online, there is a federal law that prohibits foreign companies from owning a majority share of a US airline. So American venture capitalists owned the majority of the airline. Continue reading “Alaska Airlines versus Virgin America”