Virgin America expands to Florida

Two-year-old airline Virgin America touched down Wednesday in Florida, marking one of its most ambitious expansion moves yet with a lavish welcoming ceremony that included Virgin Group Ltd. founder and billionaire Richard Branson.

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Virgin spaceship firm gets big boost from Mideast

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson signed a deal Tuesday to sell about a third of his space travel startup Virgin Galactic to a Mideast investment fund, giving the venture an influx of cash at a time when the global recession has dried up funding sources.

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Branson: Virgin, Lufthansa to discuss cooperation

Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson said Tuesday his airline will discuss a possible cooperation deal with Lufthansa — even as he slammed British Airways for seeking what he called anticompetitive, "unholy" alliances with other major airlines.

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Branson says airlines should pay tax on emissions

Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should be willing to pay for the damage they cause to the environment.

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CircleLending to Become Virgin Money USA

British billionaire Richard Branson has enough money to avoid hitting up family and friends for loans. But he apparently understands there's a business opportunity in setting up interpersonal loans between folks of more modest means than himself.

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Virgin Offers Northern Rock Equity

A consortium headed by billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group Ltd. is offering to rescue Northern Rock PLC by proposing a plan on Friday to inject cash into the struggling mortgage lender and rebrand it Virgin Money.

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BA Cuts Branson From In-Flight Bond Film

British Airways cut a cameo by Richard Branson from its in-flight version of the latest James Bond film and blurred out the tail fin of a Virgin Atlantic plane seen in the movie.

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Branson Unveils Private Spaceship Model

British entrepreneur Richard Branson on Thursday unveiled an interior mock-up of the suborbital spaceship that his company plans to use to take paying passengers into space.

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Branson Plans $3B Against Global Warming

British business mogul Richard Branson said Thursday he would invest about $3 billion to combat global warming over the next decade.

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he killer app for private spaceflight, at least once the millionaires and celebrities have had their turn, may well be scientific research.

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A very interesting article about support for the space program from a somewhat unlikely source. The world is on the verge of new manned exploration of the solar system – and, this time, environmentalists are backing it

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A bikini-clad woman swam to Richard Branson's private island and convinced him to support an ailing community radio station.

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They were aiming for a life-saving $1 million, but struggling independent radio station FBi managed to get a $70 membership fee and some nice prizes out of UK billionaire Sir Richard Branson.

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The English language is a trap for the unwary.

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Good News Wednesday; So You Think That You Have Had The Worst Airline Food?

I got this story from the British Press. It is probably the most funny letter I have ever read about bad airline food. I laughed my head off. I thought I would share the laugh. Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008

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The 83-year-old is reported to be considering selling the company he founded more than 56 years ago for some £200 million, with Sir Richard Branson's firm Virgin tipped as a potential buyer.

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Richard Branson is to launch an internet bank in a move designed to exploit public disgust with Britain's big banks in the wake of the credit crunch.

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Excerpt: U.S. Airways better guard Capt. Chesley Sullenberger 3rd. Virgin Air billionaire Richard Branson wants to poach the "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot.

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Crikey reproduces an amusing complaint letter that is floating around the interwebs about a Virgin flight, Mumbai to Heathrow on 7 December, 2008

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Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world's funniest passenger complaint letter.

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(w/ video) Sucessful entrepreneurs are creative and take risks. So says Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Atlantic in an interview with Jean-Claude Larreche, INSEAD professor of marketing. A good lesson for corporations and job seekers in the current global crisis.

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Sir Richard Branson has quit his bid to break a record for crossing the Atlantic after his yacht was damaged by high waves and strong gales.

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Virgin Group Founder and Chairman Sir Richard Branson, Entourage Creator and Executive Producer Doug Ellin, and cast members Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon, and Kevin Connolly will kick off the event by christening the new aircraft with Dom Pérignon.

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-- British billionaire Richard Branson is back in the business of chasing speed records on the high seas -- this time with his family.

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Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it is interested in being part of a consortium to buy Gatwick Airport. Its comments come two weeks after the Competition Commission said in an interim ruling that BAA may have to sell three of its UK airports.

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The Virgin boss's much trumpeted pledge of €1.9bn to tackle global warming is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

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a COMPANY called Scaled Composites is to aircraft makers what Ozwald Boateng is to tailors. If Sir wants something bespoke but slightly outlandish, Sir has most definitely come to the right place.

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Amid fanfare, Virgin Galactic unveils White Knight II

Four years after SpaceShipOne became the world's first privately developed manned vehicle to travel into space, famed aircraft designer Burt Rutan and billionaire financier Sir Richard Branson unveiled elements of the commercial follow-on vehicle today.

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Out in the Mojave desert, Virgin Galactic has unveiled the new transport ship they'll be using to carry their SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. With a 140-foot wingspan, it's the largest all-carbon composite aircraft ever built.

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LOS ANGELES — Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now the wraps have partially come off the top-secret project.

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Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, today pulled back the hangar doors on the new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft that will ferry SpaceShipTwo and thousands of private astronauts, science packages and payload on the first stage of the  …

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Early this morning in the Californian Mojave Desert, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveiled the completed Virgin Galactic Mothership "Eve," the first time this highly secretive project has seen the light of day.

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With all the pageantry of a king's arrival, the WhiteKnightTwo — a huge flying launch pad to support passenger suborbital space travel — is making its public debut here today.

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Round-the-world flying adventurer Steve Fossett may have faked his own death, investigators have claimed More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

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