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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 ...
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 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.
Virgin Money was later bought by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group (CYBG) in 2018 for £1.7 billion ($2.68 billion). CYBG paid Virgin and Branson a royalty fee to continue using the brand’s name.
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.
In August 2022, IAG converted a loan to Air Europa into a 20% shareholding. [45] On February 23, 2023, IAG announced completion of a deal to purchase the remaining 80% of Air Europa for 400 million Euros. [46] The European Commission, in January 2024, opened an in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of Air Europa by IAG.
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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 ...