Virgin American entered the Chicago market with a Groupon deal offering a roundtrip fare to the West Coast for $128. The deal, the first airfare on Chicago-based Groupon Inc., sold out in Chicago in
just eight minutes, said a Virgin America spokesperson. Virgin's Groupon deal also sold out in San Francisco and Los Angeles for a total of 2,100 tickets. The company's CEO, David Cush, said it would
keep offering steep discounts out of O'Hare International.
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