By Hannah Johnny Kara Kimberley and Anthony

•Virgin Atlantic started in 1984 and was founded by Randolph Fields , an American-born lawyer, and Alan Hellary a former chief pilot for Laker Airways . It is now owned by Richard Branson who owns 51% of the company and Singapore airlines who owns 49% or the company.

Virgin Atlantic have many special offers to Africa, Sydney Australia plus they also do hotel and car hires.

Virgin Atlantic have many passengers. There yearly passenger rate is from 5-6 million a year.

They fly to 30 destination, they also have a bitter rivalry with British airways.

They have 31 planes in total.

• Virgin fly to many places including

• Boston,Miami,Jamacia,Tokyo,Barbados and Washington .

• Virgin have two aircraft types Boeing 747-400 and Airbus 600-300.

• Virgin have held upto over 58m passengers over the years .

THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT VIRGIN

1 The airline was originally going to be called British Atlantic.

2.On the first flight in 1984 Julian Lloyd Webber entertained passengers onboard.

3.When Virgin Atlantic started in 1984 there were only four office staff, now in 2008 Virgin Atlantic has over 2000 office based employees.

4.Virgin Atlantic has used over 36,673 aircraft wheels during its 23 years of flying.

THE JOBS IN VIRGIN ATLANTIC ARE ????

-Receptionist

-Onboard medical development manager

- Cabin crew

-Airworthiness record officer

-Sales consultants

-Salon

We hope you enjoyed our presentation and hope you have found out some interesting facts about Virgin Atlantic

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