operating its last flight on 5 February 1982. Freddie Laker announced the creation of Laker Airways in February 1966. The airline commenced commercial operations...

Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went...

Freddie. An early Boeing 747, it was named in honour of Freddie Laker of Laker Airways, who helped Virgin Atlantic following the demise of his own airline...

Look up Laker or laker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laker or Lakers may refer to: Los Angeles Lakers, an NBA basketball team from Los Angeles,...

Freddie Laker and his business partner Oscar Wyatt, a self-made Texas oilman, established Laker Airways, Inc. as a sister airline to Laker Airways (Bahamas)...

undercut prices on shared routes, seeking to bankrupt Freddie Laker's airline. Laker Airways bankruptcy estate later asserted claims against IATA members...

of both United Airways and Spartan Air Lines before these airlines' merger with Hillman's Airways to form the pre-war British Airways. Following BUA's...

on April 5, 1977 as Spirit Lake Airways. It was reorganised and began scheduled services on October 12, 1981, as Great Lakes Airlines with flights between...

Leone Airways  United Kingdom BOAC (original operator) British Airways British Caledonian British United Airways (original operator) Laker Airways (aircraft...

first airline offering no-frills transatlantic service was Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which operated its famous "Skytrain" service between London and...

from Laker Airways Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos 1 2 1 Tunisair 1 1 DC-10-30 leased from Malaysia Airlines DC-10-30CF leased from World Airways Turkish...

supersavers destroyed the market for domestic ABCs. From June 1971 Laker Airways, a UK charter carrier, attempted to gain approval for its Skytrain concept:...

Air Charter was second only to Silver City Airways among the UK's contemporary independent airlines. Laker used part of Air Charter's retained profit...

and Laker flights at Gatwick, a growing number of third-party airlines appointed Gatwick Handling their handling agent at the airport. Laker Airways's demise...

Arrowsmith Holidays, a British holiday tour operator later part of Laker Airways J. W. Arrowsmith, British book printer, publisher, and imprint Arrowsmith...

Airtour 2 5 4 Iraqi Airways 1 Japan Air System 9 8 22 Merged with Japan Airlines in 2006 Korean Air 10 30 Kuwait Airways 2 8 Laker Airways 3 Ceased operations...

Raya Airways Sdn Bhd d/b/a Raya Airways, is a cargo airline with its head office at Cyberjaya, Selangor and the main hub for Raya Airways at Kuala Lumpur...

British Airways in 1988. It operated primarily from London Gatwick Airport in south-east England. BCal was formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and...

summer season, Dan-Air, Laker Airways, and Modern Air were present at the airport for a number of years. In March 1971, Channel Airways began stationing aircraft...

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intermittent windscreen wiper (b. 1927) 2006 – Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922) 2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball...

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from the Douglas DC-9 airliner Skytrain, a transatlantic service by Laker Airways Sky Train, a 1976 album by Barry Miles Skytrain Ice Rise, a large ice...

Freddie Laker. Following Laker's departure from BUA in 1965, Hellary followed Laker and took up the position of chief pilot for Laker's new airline, Laker Airways...

International was initially conceived in early 1982 after the sudden demise of Laker Airways which had left a large gap in the UK Inclusive tour/charter market....

include British Caledonian, British United Airways, CityFlyer Express, Fastjet, Laker Airways and Tradewinds Airways. Situated to the northwest of the airfield...

of the planes went to Turkish Airlines and the remaining two went to Laker Airways.[citation needed] The accident aircraft had 12 six-abreast first-class...

marketing strategy. He is the son of Freddie Laker, the founder of British airline Laker Airways. Freddie Laker began his career after dropping out of college...

by someone he'd first met in Spain, Sir Freddie Laker, to serve as the general manager for Laker Airways in Toronto. In 1979 Tait moved with the company...

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