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Starting in October and running through the holidays, the entire Virgin American Airline fleet will feature Chris Cornell on all in-flight programming. His latest LP, Scream, has been added to the airline’s music library and will be a part of a collection that plays during boarding. Beginning in November, passengers will also be able to select various Chris Cornell music videos and albums throughout their flight.

“As a new airline with a state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment system including more than 3,000 MP3s and music videos for our guests to choose from, music is in our DNA,” said Dimitrios Papadogonas, Director of Marketing at Virgin America. “We are thrilled to partner with a music legend like Chris Cornell and to add such high caliber content to our in-flight entertainment library – the largest one in the domestic skies.”

Contests held by major radio stations in three cities (NYC, DC, Boston) will be awarding winners a trip to Los Angeles and a chance to meet Chris.

In Tel Aviv Chris Cornell gave a perfect set list keeping a perfect balance between his songs from different years. When he went on stage with arms wide open to the sound of his last album "Scream" the feeling was that this was going to be a great show, and such it was.

Cornell's new songs (which most of the audience feared) got a new color, a new life and passionate energies from an artist that has rock pumping through his veins but doesn't mind fooling around with catchy hits as "Part of Me"

Cornell is a true "stage animal" - you could see it on every muscle on his face. He was in the show from the first second and the Israeli audience gave him a big loyal hug, shouting the words with him, cheering the first notes of a familiar song.

Cornell's vocal powers are well preserved and could be heard clearly when he gave his phenomenal version of "Redemption Song" armed only with an acoustic guitar.

Cornell didn't miss out any period of his musical career, from Soundgarden to his solo projects, and Audioslave's "Show Me How To Live" was responded to with a great roar.

His touching version of "Billie Jean" and the moving "Hunger Strike" that he sang in response to a few signs in the audience were a pure pleasure.

Cornell didn't come over to "do his job", he came to enjoy himself and maybe to compensate for last year's cancelled show, which he didn't forget to mention. He ended with "Black Hole Sun" sending many smiling people home with a promise of coming back."

- Moshe Mizrachi, Iton Tel Aviv

Beginning in Nice, Cornell is set to play a dozen arena dates in France as special guest of Lenny Kravitz.  Later he'll appear at a string of major music festivals and headline shows across the continent.

In June, he’ll play a major solo show in Israel at Tel Aviv’s New Exhibition Centre before heading to eastern Europe for appearances in Poland and the Czech Republic. The July date will include an show at Rome’s historic Roman Theatre at Ostia Antica.

The summer shows will combine music from “Scream” with songs from throughout Chris Cornell’s 14-album career, which has constantly redefined his sound and vision to encompass new music, new collaborations and new activities.

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