Airline Offers Space Flight to Frequent Flyer Winner - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.

Who doesn't like a frequently flyer program? It's one of the greatest market concepts in the history of the business world.

Virgin Airlines has taken it to new heights by offering Virgin's frequent flyer customers a chance to fly to space.

The offer applies to Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia flyers. If you have the most frequent flyer points by August 7, 2013, you will get a free ticket for the Virgin's Galactic SpaceshuttleTwo flight. That flight is planned to take place at the end of 2013 after all the testing and clearances are in place. Even if you end up in the second place, you will be able to take a zero-gravity flight.

Wondering how much is the ticket for that spaceflight if you are paying retail? Just about $200,000.

The contest is a brilliant marketing strategy by Virgin as it's going to give the airlines as well as its commercial space program a lot of media attention.

What do you think about this announcement? Would you ever want to go into space?