Hundreds of Virgin Atlantic cabin crew sue for unfair dismissal Tribunal in London will hear claims Richard Branson’s airline used Covid redundancies to target older staff The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2024
Virgin plots rail return with proposal to run West Coast routes Company says it can offer ‘much-needed choice’ in bid to create direct competition for Avanti West Coast The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2024
Virgin Atlantic tells passengers left stranded in St Lucia to ‘find your own hotels’ Exclusive: Under air travellers’ rights rules, airlines that ground flights are supposed to find alternative seats and provide hotels and meals The Independent UK · May 17, 2024
“The punk thing happened and all I saw was this skinny guy shouting. Suddenly it was all the rage and they were calling me rude names”: Bewildered and reclusive, Mike Oldfield just wanted to make double albums He’d recorded Tubular Bells with substandard instruments but later Richard Branson personally delivered a world-class studio to his cottage. It still took Oldfield over 40 years to make sense of his original vision Louder · May 15, 2024
Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon The mess created by decades of economic mistakes will be hard to unscramble. But the airline industry is a good place to start The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2024
Bonza customers out of pocket and out of patience over holiday chaos Administrators are working out whether Bonza can survive. Newcastle Herald · May 1, 2024
Grounded: Bonza poised to join long list of failed Australian airlines An aviation industry dominated by the Qantas-Virgin duopoly may have claimed another victim – but it’s far from the first to fall The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2024
Bonza enters voluntary administration after abruptly cancelling all flights across Australia Passengers were earlier left stranded as discussions took place on ‘viability of business’ The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2024
Campaign against Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money puts pressure on board Society denies ignoring members, but says a vote is not possible Evening Standard · Apr 12, 2024
British Airways stewardess ordered home after drunken row at £2,000-a-night Maldives hotel British Airways is investigating after a stewardess was ordered home following a drunken altercation at a £2,000-a-night hotel in the Maldives. Evening Standard · Apr 8, 2024
Two passenger planes clip wings at Heathrow Footage on social media shows wing of Virgin Atlantic plane overlapping wing of BA aircraft The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024
Virgin and British Airways passenger planes crash at Heathrow Airport Ghana-bound British Airways flight delayed several hours after collision on runway Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2024
Qantas and Virgin Australia put on notice over offsets after landmark decision on greenwashing Dutch court’s ruling that KLM misled customers is a ‘wakeup call’ on decarbonisation plans, climate advocacy group says The Guardian - AU · Apr 1, 2024
Boeing files lawsuit against Virgin Galactic over development of new mothership aircraft Boeing and Aurora Flight Sciences are suing Virgin Galactic for unpaid work and trade secrets related to a new mothership aircraft for Virgin Galactic’s next-generation space planes. Space · Mar 28, 2024
Guitar World · Mar 26, 2024 “I gave my vintage Jazzmaster to a girl after a show in Liverpool. 30 years later she sent me back the guitar. It’s like it died and went to heaven and came back to me”: The miraculous return of US shoegaze pioneers Drop Nineteens Having not played guitar for 20 years, Greg Ackell and the band are back with Hard Light, finding new ways of crafting sound without expanding the pedalboard
The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024 Nationwide members deserve a vote on Virgin deal – but won’t get one With the £2.9bn acquisition having big sway over its future, owners should have a say, but democractic governance is blocked
The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024 Nationwide agrees £2.9bn deal to take over Virgin Money Richard Branson has already indicated he will back takeover that will require the agreement of the group’s shareholders
MusicRadar · Mar 19, 2024 Phil Manzanera on being sampled by Kanye West and Jay-Z: "Who knew that I would earn more money from a short guitar riff that I wrote one evening on a sofa in front of the telly in 1978 than I ever earned in the entire 50 years as a member of Roxy Music?" The guitarist had no say in his riff being used on Watch The Throne track No Church In The Wild but says he received a one-third share of the publishing and royalties revenue
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024 Nationwide faces mounting calls to give members say on Virgin Money takeover Experts question if ‘bigger is better’ and whether members should be consulted on the £2.9bn deal
Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2024 Best cabin luggage, tried and tested: Top cabin bags to shop for your flight Hand luggage only? We’ve got the best bags to pass pedantic rules with flying colours
The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024 So much for the challenge from ‘challenger’ banks The uncomfortable truth is that size remains an enormous advantage in retail banking
Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2024 Nationwide buying Virgin Money is an awful deal City Comment: Claims that this deal will boost mutuality are hollow
Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2024 Nationwide swoops on Virgin Money in controversial £2.9 billion deal Deal lands £414m windfall to Richard Branson’s Virgin Group
The Guardian - AU · Mar 7, 2024 Who let the dogs on? Everything you need to know about Virgin Australia’s planned pets in cabins scheme From confining animals to carriers to dealing with doggy business, how will the airline’s policy to let small cats and canines fly in plane cabins actually work?
The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024 Virgin Media O2 clients hit with 8.8% price rises or crippling exit fees Increase is biggest hike in percentage terms of any major broadband or mobile firm this year