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The 1947 flight, the last to bear the name Virgin America, ended the airline's Tuesday evening tenure with a brief jump from Los Angeles to its former San Francisco base.

After the flight, Virgin America's gushing violet and reddish colors would be cleaned from check-in desks and gate doors at US airport doors. It will be superseded by the laid-back blues and greens of Alaska Airlines, which VA purchased for $2.6 billion in 2016. Virgin America's PSS will be merged with Alaska's on Wednesday in a case known as cutovers.

"This means that all passenger bookings and ticketing are in a unified system. "Furthermore, travellers travelling on former Virgin America aircraft will now use the website, portable application and call centre in Alaska. The PSS changeover is one of the last and most important obstacles for Alaska Airlines in integrating the San Francisco radio start-up.

Alaska Airlines CIO Charu Jain was keen to prevent the errors made by others in the past. Jain, who is a vet of two other airlines, the United and Continental included Jainocky 2010 U.S. Association, said a place where things can go horribly awry is the transmission of bookings and information from the system of the outbound carrier to the new one.

And so Alaska chose to do something else. Rather than transferring Virgin America bookings to Alaska's system, the carrier would just resell Virgin flight ticket on Alaska's system. "Earlier last year, when we chose April 25, we began offering Airbus Virgin America fares as Alaska fares," Jain said to us.

"Everybody who flies on the twenty-fifth has a pass to Alaska and checks into Alaska's website or application. Although both airlines provide award-winning services, their styles and modus are very different. In order to ensure that Virgin America's gateways operators and air traffic control personnel are prepared for the changeover, the airlines have moved the personnel to a common location so that they have become used to the cooperation.

That agent, which locates Virgin America and Alaska Gateways next to each other and also has VA personnel members, works the Alaska Gateways and vice-versa, Jain said. While Alaska Airlines has a Boeing pure aircraft and Virgin America has an Airbus aircraft. Alaska says Virgin's Airbus aircraft will operate alongside the Boeing 737s.

Although some Airbuses of the former Virgin America were painted with Alaska paint, the whole painting procedure will not be completed until the end of next year. The same applies to the Airbus interior, which will be converted to Alaska specifications. Virgin America's Red Board maintenance system will also continue to operate until the interior is upgraded.