Last night in a terrifically rainy Chicago, Virgin top dog Richard Branson filled up theWit Hotel with VIPs and held court on the roofdeck, joined by celebrities just in on one of Virgin America's first flights to Chicago from LAX and SFO. We caught Tim Meadows in the elevator, Adrian Grenier shying away from cameras, and Creed Bratton from The Office chilling...just to name a few. Of course Creed was our absolute favorite spotting of the eve.
It was a motley bunch, but in true Virgin style. The purpose of the whole thing was to announce to the Windy City that Virgin America has finally begun flights here, after three straight years of battling it out with the legacy airlines. It's such a big deal, that the party to celebrate the flights' arrival was also a Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Wines affair. And it's rumored that Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Branson in his suite for pow wow.
It's kinda hard not to know what's going on if you're in Chicago right now, since Virgin plastered the exterior of the hotel with their "The Flight for Chicago" theme, and had Richard Branson riding the El train handing out free flight vouchers to riders.
For all the pictures from last night's event and more on the new flights, check out the firsthand coverage at our sister site, Jaunted.com.
[Photo: Nicholas Gang]
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