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Virgin offers space ride to the most frequent flyer

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Ladies and gentlemen, please stow your tray tables and bring your seatbacks into an upright position… the flight to suborbital space is now ready for takeoff….   Oh you heard me right.   Virgin Airlines announced the company will reward it’s most frequent traveler for the year with a roundtrip ticket to outer space!    Started in 2004, Virgin Galactic has already pre-sold tickets for its first ever space flight  to 500 starry-eyed passengers at $200,000 a ticket.   However, the Virgin Elevate Member with the most miles accumulated between August 8 of this year and August 7th of 2013 will earn a complimentary seat on that historic flight. Makes your loyalty program seem a little bland now? Yeah, mine too.
via Red Orbit

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