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This is a list of airline holding companies, that either own more than one airline or are the parent company of a single airline.. A company or firm in which the holding company owns a significant portion of voting shares, usually 20–50% or a "minority of share ownership", is known as an associate company.
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between ...
In October 2011 Virgin Hotels bought the 27-story Old Dearborn Bank Building in the Loop area of Chicago for $14.8 million from Urban Street Group LLC. [3] On January 15, 2015 the first Virgin Hotel opened. [4] In February 2019, Virgin Hotels opened at its second location in San Francisco, CA on 4th street, near to Yerba Buena Gardens.
Virgin Group Ltd, founded by U.K. tycoon Richard Branson, plans enter the hotel industry. Virgin will spend as much as $500 million on high-end hotels aimed at "high income, well-educated ...
Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesSir Richard Branson at a 2011 press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, discussing plans to open hotels worldwide under his Virgin brand. At the time it ...
Defunct airlines: Virgin America (sold and merged into Alaska Airlines) Virgin Atlantic Little Red; Virgin Blue. V Australia; Pacific Blue Airlines; Polynesian Blue; Virgin Express (merged with SN Brussels Airlines to form Brussels Airlines) Virgin Express France; Virgin Nigeria Airways (rebranded as Air Nigeria) Virgin Sun (sold and merged ...
Alaska Airlines flight attendant Rebecca Owens works 10 hours a day but only gets paid for half that time - a legacy of a common U.S. airline policy to pay cabin crew members o… NBC Universal 20 ...
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.