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...most businesses, America is superb at customer service. The American airline industry is not. We're not necessarily saying it needs another low-cost carrier. I do believe it needs the kind of carrier that's more akin to Virgin Atlantic...
...TIME Virgin Galactic is supposed to start commercial flights to space in 2 1/2 years. At $200,000 a ticket, how much of a market do you think there is for space tourism...
...people are going to drop away when it comes to putting up hard cash, but after five or seven years, I think we'll be able to start bringing prices down and enable more people to go up in space. I hope that in my lifetime, Virgin Galactic will be taking people to a beautiful hotel on the moon...
...pugnacious Thatcherite tycoon who in 1981 masterminded the transformation of the foundering state-run British Airways (nicknamed "Bloody Awful" by suffering Brits) into a profitable international powerhouse; in Leicestershire, England. After slashing 30% of the jobs and revamping BA's image, he sparred with arch rival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, who accused him of such "dirty tricks" as computer hacking and poaching passengers. King ultimately was ordered to publicly apologize and pay libel judgments to Branson and Virgin...
...paradise,? says my Iranian guide, Mehrdad, a bearish, soft-spoken man who translates Italian essayists and teaches English in Tehran, ?It was made in China, of plastic. The mullahs told us that the key would open the door to a golden palace with hundreds of rooms and a beautiful virgin in each room. You see, we were facing certain death - the Iraqis had poison gas.? Like hundreds of thousands of young conscripts in the Iran-Iraq war, Mehrdad was destined for a suicidal human-wave charge on the Iraqi lines. He was spared only by his commander's desire...