{"id":21639,"date":"2012-02-29T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/virgin-samoa-celebrates-first-flight-3\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:06:00","slug":"virgin-samoa-celebrates-first-flight-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/virgin-samoa-celebrates-first-flight-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Samoa celebrates first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelmanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/3932_NpAdvHover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hotelmanagement.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/3932_NpAdvHover.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Virgin Australia has celebrated the inaugural flight home of Virgin Samoa\u2019s aircraft, Tapu\u2019itea, carrying its new colours, the Virgin Samoa brand and upgraded interior.<\/p>\n<p>A formal welcome celebration was hosted by the Government of Samoa and joint venture partner, Virgin Australia, to mark the historic event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(With the launch) we take the national airline of Samoa into the future,\u201d said Mark Pitt, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Samoa.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/VirginSamoa.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"193\" src=\"http:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/VirginSamoa.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Virgin Samoa new livery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cThe new livery will increase the airline\u2019s visibility in the eyes of local Samoans and those living abroad, as Samoa\u2019s national flag carrier. Since announcing the new name in December last year, the response from the Samoan people has been overwhelmingly positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The development of Virgin Samoa\u2019s new livery and interior design elements were guided by renowned brand and identity designer, Hans Hulsbosch, and Virgin Australia\u2019s in-house brand team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new look and feel of Virgin Samoa is consistent with the Virgin Australia brand while underlining the special, uniquely Samoan, cultural elements that make it the people\u2019s airline of Samoa,\u201d Virgin Australia General Manager, Marketing, Michael Betteridge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is represented on the aircraft through the palm tree design and the \u2018Airline of Samoa\u2019 tag line on the fuselage; and a key element of the airline\u2019s new visual language is the tatau designed by Samoan master tattooist, Tulouena Sua Tuifasisina Letelemaa\u2019ana. It features on the aircraft\u2019s engines and on the scarves and ties worn by Virgin Samoa Cabin Crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Sua originally developed the unique tatau design in 2007 to represent the coming together of Polynesian Airlines and Virgin Australia to form their new joint venture and it felt only right that our future should carry a respectful reference to our past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Australia has celebrated the inaugural flight home of Virgin Samoa\u2019s aircraft, Tapu\u2019itea, carrying its new colours, the Virgin Samoa brand and upgraded interior. A formal welcome celebration was hosted by the Government of Samoa and joint venture partner, Virgin Australia, to mark the historic event. \u201c(With the launch) we take the national airline of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}