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RICHARD BRANSON writing about Pan Am founder Juan Trippe is a little cheeky on our part, given that Trippe was a renegade who took on the entire industry for the right to create cheaper fares, while Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines, is a renegade who...well, you get the idea. Branson is probably the most colorful tycoon of his generation, with a penchant for starting new businesses and crash-landing balloons...
...Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats. Pan Am was forced to switch to remote Shannon, Ireland. The industry's aversion to competition and making travel affordable was to have a long life, as Sir Freddie Laker would discover in the 1970s and Virgin Atlantic nearly a decade later...
...creator of the 747, Trippe gave us the world's traveling machine. I launched Virgin Atlantic in June 1984 with 747s at the point when it was really shrinking the world and air travel was truly democratized, as Trippe intended...
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic, knows a bit about airline renegades
Blanchett at the end of the film, martyred tothe state as the Virgin Queen, is not a grandpoignant enigma, but merely the astute resolutionto give the people of England the ruler theydesire...