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Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by olegbl »

jperras wrote: post #52
malloreon wrote: post #15

The new boarding pass design is fantastic. Every airline needs to do at least that part immediately.

There was a post a few years ago that detailed many of the archaic and somewhat obscure requirements that boarding passes must have: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... It seems as though Virgin America can bypass many of these because there are no (?) international flights. The original boarding pass redesign post, to which the above was a rebuttal: http://passfail.squarespace.com/ Edit:…

I believe Virgin partners with other airlines for all their international flights. Like, "Air Tahiti Nui operated by Virgin".

Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by qqg3 »

jperras wrote: post #52
malloreon wrote: post #15

The new boarding pass design is fantastic. Every airline needs to do at least that part immediately.

There was a post a few years ago that detailed many of the archaic and somewhat obscure requirements that boarding passes must have: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... It seems as though Virgin America can bypass many of these because there are no (?) international flights. The original boarding pass redesign post, to which the above was a rebuttal: http://passfail.squarespace.com/ Edit:…

No, they bypassed it because that is the print-at-home boarding pass design...

Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by qqg3 »

vinceguidry wrote: post #8

When I saw their new boarding pass I just had to laugh. Someone awhile back went and redesigned Delta's boarding pass[1] and got a lot of crap over it for not taking into account why the boarding pass was the way it was.[2][3] But apparently someone at Virgin was taking notes. [1] http://passfail.squarespace.com/ [2] http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... [3] http://www.ryanholiday.net/this-i…

It's a print-at-home boarding pass, so no restrictions. I'm sure the one they produce at the airport still sucks.

Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by duderific »

zaroth wrote: post #47

Someone else was wondering if this was a parody, I think they might be right. There is so much funky with this, it does feel only half serious. For me it started with 'Book from San Francisco'. I clicked on the 'Boston' button, and it shows this weird top status-bar drop down thing which flashes the message: 'Going to "Hahvahd," perchance?'. What? Then the browser starts, a little bit too slowly, scrolling itself dow…

I think they took "mobile first" to the extreme, and disregarded desktop. I imagine that giant calendar is pretty cool on an iPad. It's not really responsive design if you optimize only for devices and not for desktop as well.

Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by ecdavis »

tommy_mcclung wrote: post #29

Would have been great, except for it suffers from the same problem the existing VA site suffers from. Almost every time I use the VA site, "something goes wrong". I just tried to book tickets for next week, got all the way to the end to pay, hit submit and "something went wrong". They just put a pretty front end on a broken booking system that breaks almost every time I use the site. The only thing I care about is th…

I've been very frustrated by this as well. I tried changing a booking with Virgin Australia earlier today and got a popup message: "Important information: an unknown error occurred. Try again."

Re: The new VirginAmerica.com

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Post by ultimatedelman »

qqg3 wrote: post #77
vinceguidry wrote: post #8

When I saw their new boarding pass I just had to laugh. Someone awhile back went and redesigned Delta's boarding pass[1] and got a lot of crap over it for not taking into account why the boarding pass was the way it was.[2][3] But apparently someone at Virgin was taking notes. [1] http://passfail.squarespace.com/ [2] http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p... [3] http://www.ryanholiday.net/this-i…

It's a print-at-home boarding pass, so no restrictions. I'm sure the one they produce at the airport still sucks.

actually the one they print from the airport is small and pocket-sized as well. at least the ones i get from SFO, anyways.
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