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...arrived at British Airways just before the airline announced its first annual loss since privatization. A dedicated cricketer, Eddington reached a sort of détente with bitter B.A. rival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic by joining the Virgin side for a match in Oxfordshire. (They won.) To claw back to profitability, he sold off no-frills subsidiary Go for a nice profit, and reduced the airline's overall capacity while offering more perks to high-margin, business-class flyers, most notably on the vital U.S.-bound routes...
TIME: Who is the better cricket player, you or Richard Branson of Virgin? Eddington: I'm a big fan of Richard Branson...
MICHAEL O'LEARY Airline Executive In his jeans-wearing corporate iconoclasm, O'Leary resembles fellow airline entrepreneur Richard Branson. While most carriers were paralyzed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, O'Leary, 40, chief executive of Dublin-based Ryanair, jumped into action, slashing fares for all seats on his no-frills airline to $15, selling a record number of tickets in one week. He took over the money-losing Ryanair in 1990 and made it profitable within a year. Even as others in the industry were cutting back earlier this year, Ryanair was growing, making short jaunts between 55 European...
...Joann Branson, 73, a theology professor in Monterey, Calif., treasures the memory of her granddaughter Megan's helping her learn her part at the Elderhostel theater week in Worcester, Mass. Joann and her husband Jack, also 73, a retired naval aviator, took Megan, 10, who lives near them, along last July. The Elderhostel group put on a musical play. "When I saw I had a solo, I thought I would die!" Joann recalls. "I couldn't learn my words. Megan was up at 6 a.m. teaching me. It was beautiful when she said, 'Oh, Grandma...
...nipping traffic that suddenly re-emerges. Or the streets hawkers and immigrants who sometimes clog the rugged roads to Votanikos, the thriving trend-setting part of Athens. Within minutes, you'll be stunned by the sight of Athinais, an architectural oasis designed by one of Richard Branson's favorite visionaries, Tom Gazetas. Formerly a silk factory sandwiched between a cluster of auto-repair shops, the 6,500-sq-m stone Athinais in now home to the first museum of ancient Cypriot art in Greece, with one of the rarest collections of its kind in the world...