About Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic is the British airline endemic by Richard Branson's Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). It operates amid the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia from its capital bases at London Heathrow and London Gatwick.

Richard Branson was beforehand associated with music annal business and acclimated to run a aggregation alleged Virgin Records. Richard absitively to appear in airlines business in 1984. He bought British Atlantic Airways and the new airlines began its operations on June 22, 1984. The countdown flight was amid London Gatwick and Newark. Virgin Atlantic brought alternating new standards of onboard account and became the aboriginal airline to action alone TVs to their business chic passengers.

In 1992, Richard Branson afterwards affairs the Virgin Music invested the gain into Virgin Atlantic. In the aforementioned year Virgin Atlantic launched the aboriginal cool abridgement account that went on to become accolade acceptable Premium Economy. In 1999, Richard Branson awash a 49% pale in the aggregation to Singapore Airlines. In September 2007 Virgin Atlantic won Airline of the Year - Business at the Travel Trade Gazette Awards.