Virgin Submarine?
By RICHARD MORIARTY
Adventure Sir Richard Branson has unveiled his new toy - an underwater "plane" for a voyage to the bottom of the sea.
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Space Tourism
By Paula Bustamante
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars.
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Richard Branson Airline Deal
By Ikechi Uko, eTN Ambassador
The controversial relationship between Virgin Atlantic and its erstwhile Nigeria counterpart Virgin Nigeria has finally came to an end on September 17 at a well attended press conference at the VIP lo
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Making The Skies Friendly Again
What's to love about this new airline from Richard Branson? A lot. Let's start with the obvious - really low fares on it's routes between Australia and west coast USA.
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Branson Calls On Government To Reject Application
A proposed alliance between AMR Corp's American Airlines and British Airways would create a "monster monopoly," British entrepreneur Richard Branson said on Thursday.
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Virgin America
By sfgate.com
Q: Virgin just started flying between San Francisco and Orange County last week. Can you make a new route work during a serious recession?
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Space Tourism
By Mark Harding
LISBON, Portugal (eTN) - Every now and again a new form of high-speed transit appears such as the TGV, wide-body airliner, Concorde and so on, but nothing quite compares with the supersonic marvel tha
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V Australia
By alternativeairlines.com
Sir Richard Branson must have been a proud man as he took delivery of a brand new Boeing 777-300 ER on behalf of his Australian airline, V Australia.
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Richard Branson
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Africa
Reports have reached from acquaintances in Nigeria about the latest developments over Sir Richard Branson’s Nigerian aviation (mis)adventure.
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Low-cost Airfare
By Yusof Sulaiman
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (eTN) - AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman Rani has been asked the same question many times: How much longer can his long-haul low-cost carrier AirAsia X continue with its business mode
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Africa Aviation
By Lucky Onoriode George, eTN Ambassador
LAGOS, Nigeria (eTN) - Virgin Atlantic, majority shareholder and core investor in Nigeria’s flag carrier Virgin Nigeria, is set to de-invest is shareholding in the airline.
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South Australia - Space. Non-Stop.
The South Australian Tourism Commission wants British billionaire, and head of Virgin, Richard Branson, to consider the State's outback for one of his most ambitious ventures.
The British entrepreneur hopes his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which is still being developed, will take tourists into space within the next two years.
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It's Time To Open Up
Sir Richard Branson has called on the US government to be “brave” and embrace cross-border ownership of airlines and ensure that phase two of the open skies deal benefits European carriers.
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Virgin In Talks To Create New Russian Airline
MOSCOW - Virgin Group is in talks with a Russian company to set up a new local airline, Virgin owner Richard Branson said on Thursday, but analysts doubted he could overcome political obstacles to make it a reality.
"Now is the time for Virgin to come to Russia," Branson told reporters. "We are in discussions with a Russian partner. We ... read more
Virgin Group
New Delhi, India - The U.K.'s Virgin Group is seeking permission from the Indian government to launch a domestic airline in the country, its chairman said Monday.
«As a foreigner I'm not allowed to own a domestic airline ... I'm still lobbying to get permission to launch a domestic airline in India,» Richard Branson told reporters on ... read more