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Exhibit 99.1
VIRGIN AMERICA REPORTS AUGUST 2015 OPERATIONAL RESULTS
San Francisco – Wednesday September 9, 2015 – Virgin America Inc. (NASDAQ: VA) today reported its preliminary operational results for August 2015. The airline’s traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) increased 1.5 percent on capacity (measured in available seat miles) that was 4.0% higher from the same month in 2014.
Load factor was 83.6 percent, a decrease of 2.0 points from August 2014. The number of onboard passengers increased 10.5 percent from the same month last year.
| August | August Year to Date | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 2014 | Change | 2015 | 2014 | Change | |||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue Passenger Miles (000) |
954,152 | 939,927 | 1.5 | % | 6,900,203 | 6,838,204 | 0.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Available Seat Miles (000) |
1,141,438 | 1,097,547 | 4.0 | % | 8,290,293 | 8,231,102 | 0.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Passenger Load Factor |
83.6 | % | 85.6 | % | (2.0 | pts) | 83.2 | % | 83.1 | % | 0.1 | pts | ||||||||||||
| Onboard Passengers (000) |
648 | 586 | 10.5 | % | 4,614 | 4,394 | 5.0 | % | ||||||||||||||||
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Media Contact: Dave Arnold: 917.968.3622 or dave.arnold@virginamerica.com
Investor Contact: Stephen Shulstein: 650.645.5694 or stephen.shulstein@virginamerica.com
Editor’s Note: Virgin America is a U.S.-controlled, owned and operated airline. It is an entirely separate company from Virgin Atlantic. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is a minority share investor in Virgin America.
About Virgin America: Known for its mood-lit cabins, three beautifully designed classes of service and innovative fleetwide amenities — like touch-screen personal entertainment, WiFi and power outlets at every seat, Virgin America has built a loyal following of flyers and earned a host of awards since launching in 2007 — including being named the “Best U.S. Airline” in Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards for the past seven consecutive years and “Best Domestic Airline” in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards for the past eight consecutive years. For more: www.virginamerica.com
SOURCE: Virgin America