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...David Cameron: We have. [Senator] John McCain came to our conference and I admire him a great deal. Lots of things we won't agree about on every dot and comma - our approach to Iraq is probably quite different. The Conservative Party has also always had a number of good contacts with the Democrats, and we should have contacts with both sides but obviously the Republicans are our sister party. We're together in the International Democratic Union and other bodies and there are good and strong ties there...
...more than a year, Virgin America's application at the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been enmeshed in a cantankerous debate about who, exactly, controls the airline. Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who has plastered the Virgin logo on everything from record stores to cell phones, longed to start a U.S. branch of his renegade Virgin airlines but was kept out of the market by a law that says foreigners can't own more than 25% of a U.S.-based carrier. Nor can they run the show from behind the scenes...
...DOT agreed this past December and tentatively rejected Virgin America's application on the grounds that the use of the resources of the British umbrella-company Virgin Group--to develop a business plan, buy planes and solicit U.S. investors--didn't sufficiently recede when U.S. executives took over, and that there are still examples, including the licensing agreement to use the Virgin brand, of foreigners holding too much sway...
Virgin America is in a frenzied, last-ditch effort to get the DOT to change its mind, so the airline is turning to would-be customers for help. The company had planned to keep a tight lid on details about its planes until tickets went on sale. That strategy is history as the airline seeds websites like YouTube, Flickr and Digg with stories, pictures and video, hoping to gin up the sort of viral, user-generated movement that--we are told--now shapes our world. "We want to say to the consumers of America, this is what you're missing...
Despite its conviction that it complies with existing regulations, Virgin America needs to rejigger some fairly major aspects of its corporate and financial structure--and then hope the DOT reconsiders. Meanwhile, the industry's other big regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration, has cleared Virgin to fly. The company has also hired enough employees, including dozens of pilots and flight attendants, to actually run an airline--if, that is, they're allowed to take...