It’s a lovely sunny day up at 32,000 feet on Virgin America flight 108 between Los Angeles and Washington DC, the special chartered flight ferryiing a squadron of volunteers, media and Virgin Folk out to this year’s FreeFest.
In collaboration with Virgin Mobile this year, Virgin America donated the use of an entire Airbus A320 to bring forty lucky volunteers and their guests out to FreeFest, on an all expense paid tour of the festival.
Volunteers were able to register their charitable work with Virgin Mobile over the course of the summer, after which each was entered into a raffle to make the journey. The lucky winners are being given a free flight, accomodation and VIP access to this year’s FreeFest.
As the momentum on Flight 108 picks up you can feel the electricity starting to build among the passengers. Playstation has set up a “gaming lounge” in first class where they’re hosting a rock band competition, Kyocera and Virgin Mobile are wandering around the aircraft giving away gadgets and the martinis are flowing freely. It’s going to be a wild ride this weekend — we’ll keep you updated.