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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 [9] [10] in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
Virgin Group [1] is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970.. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company; however, Virgin's business and trading activities date back to the 1970s.
The airline along with Virgin Holidays is controlled by a holding company, Virgin Atlantic Limited, which is 51% owned by the Virgin Group and 49% by Delta Air Lines. It is administratively separate from other Virgin-branded airlines.
2005 – Virgin Express merges with Sn Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines. Virgin retains minority share. 2005 – Virgin Active UK acquires Holmes Place; 2006 – Virgin announces Virgin Fuel, a new company to produce a clean fuel in the future; 2006 – Virgin Active Spain is Launched [citation needed]
Sir Richard Branson is offering to put up his private island, Necker Island, as collateral to save his Virgin Atlantic airline from collapsing. Branson founded the Virgin Group, which operates ...
Virgin Airlines may refer to: Active airlines: Virgin Atlantic; Virgin Australia; Defunct airlines: Virgin America (sold and merged into Alaska Airlines)
Virgin America Inc. was a low-cost airline headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame, in the U.S. state of California.It primarily focused on operating low-fare, higher-quality service between cities on the West Coast of the United States and other major metropolitan areas.
Australian law prohibits majority-foreign-owned local airlines, like Virgin Australia, from operating international flights to and from Australia. [6] However, Virgin Australia evades this law by operating international flights through a controversial ' shell corporation ' structure, a practice that is not illegal but has been widely criticised ...