Quote from Sunday Times front page 6/9/09:"Upgraded MPs pass a Virgin motion - By Daniel Foggo (Sunday Times 6/9/09)A group of MPs who accepted flight upgrades and free trips from Virgin Atlantic have tabled a parliamentary motion which heaps praise on the airline and even quotes its advertising slogan. The early day motion (EDM) places Virgin at the "forefront of the avfaion idisutry", lavishes approval on its green credetntials and puffs its "award winnign on-board experience". It goes on to refer to Viring Atlantic as "red hot" - a reference to a recent TV advertising campaign inwhich air hostesses in scarlet uniforms and stilettos parade before bawping male passnegers.Of the 30 MPs who have so far backed the motion, five including its author Paul Keetch, have declare upgrades or free flights fromthe carrier int he past few years in the Commons' register of members interests.Other signatories may have accepted the upgrades and, quite legitimately, decided not to declare them. Upgrades on transatlantic rflights can be worth thousands of pounds.Keetch's motion appears also to have a more serious purpose in opposing plans by rival British Airways to link up woth American Airlines. It speaks of "welcoming the competiion that currently exists in the aviation sector".Keetch, the Liberal Democrat MP for Herefore, said he was inspire to draft an EDM celebrating Virgin's silver anniversary because his life had been saved by a Virgin cabin crew when he suffered a heart attack on a flight two years ago.Gordon Brown is to fly Virgin instead of BA to the G20 summit in the US this month"The Sunday Times 6/9/09.