{"id":429477,"date":"2021-08-07T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T02:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429477"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:42:54","slug":"virgin-galactic-reopens-ticket-sales-charges-450000-per-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-galactic-reopens-ticket-sales-charges-450000-per-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales, charges $450,000 per seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson&#8217;s space tourism firm Virgin Galactic has reopened ticket sales for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The price starts at $450,000 per seat, The Verge reported on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The price more than doubled from the roughly $200,000 price point the company had years ago, before it closed sales in 2014 following a fatal 2014 accident during a test flight.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket reopening and new price comes as Branson successfully flew to the edge of space aboard SpaceShipTwo in July. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leveraging the surge in consumer interest following the Unity 22 flight, we are excited to announce the reopening of sales effective today, beginning with our Spacefarer community,&#8221; Virgin Galactic&#8217;s chief executive Michael Colglazier said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson&#8217;s space tourism firm Virgin Galactic has reopened ticket sales for its SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, the media reported. The price starts at $450,000 per seat, The Verge reported on Thursday. The price more than doubled from the roughly $200,000 price point the company had years ago, before it closed sales in 2014 following a fatal 2014 accident during a test flight. The ticket reopening and new price comes as Branson successfully flew to the edge of space aboard SpaceShipTwo in July. &#8220;Leveraging the surge in consumer interest following the Unity 22 flight, we are excited to announce the reopening of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}