{"id":21315,"date":"2011-01-19T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/virgin-america-to-host-mile-high-version-of-vh1-s-top-20-countdown\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T04:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:33:50","slug":"virgin-america-to-host-mile-high-version-of-vh1-s-top-20-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/virgin-america-to-host-mile-high-version-of-vh1-s-top-20-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin America to Host Mile-High Version of VH1\u2019s Top 20 Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Virgin America will roll out the red carpet for VH1 on its inaugural flight to Cancun (Image: Wikimedia)\" src=\"going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/Virgin_America_A320-214_LAX_N621VA.jpg\" alt=\"Virgin America will roll out the red carpet for VH1 on its inaugural flight to Cancun (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"398\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today Virgin America launches non-stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/from-los-angeles-to-cancun-lax-to-cun\">flight from LAX to Cancun<\/a>, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline has announced that it will kick off the new route in style, hosting a special episode of VH1\u2019s popular \u201cTop 20 Countdown\u201d from 35,000 feet in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the flight, host Jim Shearer will be joined in First Class by Grammy-nominated artists the Goo Goo Dolls to discuss the band\u2019s latest album.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The show is also scheduled to feature a cameo appearance from Virgin founder Richard Branson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mile-high \u201cCountdown to Cancun\u201d episode will air on VH1 on January 29 at 9:00 am Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Virgin America will begin offering additional direct service to Cancun from San Francisco on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/virgin-america-toasts-its-newest-mexican-route-with-vh1-countdown-to-cancun-inaugural-flight-114202929.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> PRNewswire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Virgin America launches non-stop flight from LAX to Cancun, Mexico. &nbsp; The airline has announced that it will kick off the new route in style, hosting a special episode of VH1\u2019s popular \u201cTop 20 Countdown\u201d from 35,000 feet in the air. &nbsp; During the flight, host Jim Shearer will be joined in First Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98905787,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions\/98905787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}