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Virgin Charter Names Eric Hofer Senior VP Sales, Customer Service

Is Former Travelocity Business Veteran

Virgin Charter, a new full service online marketplace designed to match charter customers and operators, announced Thursday that Eric Hofer has joined the company as senior vice president, sales and customer service. Hofer will oversee sales, strategy, and client services activities and will report to CEO Scott Duffy.

Hofer is a veteran of the travel industry and most recently spent four years at Travelocity Business where he served as vice president of North American sales. He was responsible for the growth of the company’s sales from $10 million at startup to more than $1 billion annually.

Hofer also held senior management positions at Lancer Management Inc., Tower Travel Management, Navigant International and Midway Airlines Corporation.

“Eric is one of the most respected executives in the travel industry and an outstanding addition to our management team at this very exciting time,” said Duffy. “We recently opened the Virgin Charter marketplace and are experiencing a tremendous volume of trip requests from consumers and businesses. Eric will be a key player in helping us develop partnerships with corporate travel departments as well as high-end travel consortiums.”

“Virgin Charter represents the future of private aviation and will enable corporate travel departments to take advantage of the benefits of private air travel in an efficient and cost-effective way,” said Hofer. “During my years in the business travel industry, I routinely heard from corporate travel buyers that their organizations were increasing their use of private aviation but that it was simply too difficult to find and book charter aircraft that meet their safety and quality standards. Virgin Charter has removed the friction points, making it easy find and purchase charter air travel, essentially opening this channel for growth.”

As ANN reported, Virgin Charter launched its full-service online marketplace March 4, following two Beta trials. The company launched a test program for the service in June 2007.

FMI: www.virgincharter.com

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