English business mogul Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin Group companies, including Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. The brash entrepreneur is also a noted adventurer, having attempted to break various world records...
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English business mogul Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin Group companies, including Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. The brash entrepreneur is also a noted adventurer, having attempted to break various world records in boating and ballooning.
MOJAVE, California (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic on Monday unveiled the first commercial passenger spaceship, a sleek black-and-white vessel that represents a gamble with a sky-high price tag to create a commercial space and tourism industry. The company hopes the winged, minivan-sized SpaceShipTwo, will rocket tourists into zero gravity beginning in two or three years. "This will be the start of commercial space travel," Virgin Atlantic Airways founder and billionaire Richard Branson said at... Read Full Story
Richard Branson partner in resort, cooking school opening on NJ estate PEAPACK-GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) — A new luxury resort is opening on an estate in New Jersey with Sir Richard Branson as a partner. The Natirar resort will be set in a 40-room mansion on 90 acres of a 500-acre property in Somerset County, N.J. The estate, located about 45 miles from New York City, was once owned by King Hassan II of Morocco. The first phase of the project, the Ninety Acres Culinary Center, opens Dec. 1 with a... Read Full Story
A new luxury resort is opening on an estate in New Jersey with Sir Richard Branson as a partner. The Natirar resort will be set in a 40-room mansion on 90 acres of a 500-acre property in Somerset County, N.J. The estate, located about 45 miles from New York City, was once owned by King Hassan II of Morocco. The first phase of the project, the Ninety Acres Culinary Center, opens Dec. 1 with a restaurant, cooking school, wine school and working farm on 15 acres. The culinary center will... Read Full Story
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic. Long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched an application, or app, for its Flying Without Fear course which boasts a success rate of over 98 percent. Apps are a source of information, games and other novelty ideas for users of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The airline said in a statement that this app was designed to help people overcome fear, be it... Read Full Story
Sir Richard Branson
Virgin Atlantic as founded in 1984 and Sir Richard Branson had the vision to create an airline, where people love to fly and also where people love to work. One of the unique things about Virgin Atlantic is that Sir Richard Branson is not your regular CEO which reflected in the way that he runs his airline.
Virgin Atlantic is in fact the holder of every major award with recent achievements including the Skytrax 2008 World Airline Awards - World’s Best Business Class... Read Full Story
Sir Richard Branson another world famous billionaire dropout; Branson is the founder of Virgin brand of over 360 companies including Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Records. Branson dropped out of high school at 16 ironically, his first rather successful business venture was publishing a magazine called “Student”.
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Branson , 58 born July 18, 1950 in South London. He was knighted in 1999. He’s married with two grown children. Besides being an... Read Full Story
Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched a new iPhone application that would help people deal with their phobia in flying by just pressing the “iButton.”
The new iButton application, according to Virgin, has over 98 percent success rate in helping people to overcome their fear in flying. The App was designed to make people comfortable in situations that they fear most like unfamiliar aircraft rides, airplane noises, and dysfunctional airplane rides.
“Millions of people around the world will... Read Full Story
Virgin Atlantic has launched a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch aimed at people who suffer from aerophobia - more commonly known as fear of flying. The app is an offshoot of the airline's Flying Without Fear course, which reportedly has a success rate of 98 per cent. Announcing the technological offering, which is the first application of its kind, the long-haul carrier said that it will help people with fears of all kinds, from slight anxiety at making bookings to absolute... Read Full Story
TOKYO (Reuters) - British entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder and president of Virgin Atlantic Airways <VA.UL>, said on Tuesday he believes it is unlikely that all big U.S. airlines will survive the next 12 to 18 months. "I don't think that the American government will yet again put more billions into the airline industry. They've learned their lessons from the car industry," Branson told Reuters in an interview in Tokyo. "I just happen to believe it is unlikely that all the big American... Read Full Story
I know the feeling all too well: the airplane starts to lift off, and you suddenly get overwhelmed with the feeling that something isn’t right. Is it going too fast? Should it make this much noise? And then, as it rises off the ground, you get that uneasy feeling in your stomach and you’d most definitely rather be somewhere else.
And I’m not even scared of flying; I can only imagine what it’s like to someone who has a genuine phobia. But Virgin Atlantic Airways aims to alleviate the issue... Read Full Story
