Virgin America Is The Michael Jordan Of Airlines

Virgin America was faster than its competition on 87 percent of the routes they had in common.

Source FiveThirtyEight

March 16, 2015

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The Chicago Bulls won 88 percent of their games during the 1995-96 regular season, going 72-10 and claiming the best record in NBA history. Impressive, right? It’s hard to win that often in any field, let alone one with so much competition.

But there’s an airline that pretty much does exactly that. In 2014, Virgin America was faster than its competition on 87 percent of the routes they had in common.

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