Virgin Atlantic

part of Virgin

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 24, 2021 by Sir Richard Branson · across every show →

Everything said about Virgin Atlantic, oldest first

Jun 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Branson: Virgin won the biggest legal damages in British history
“We won the biggest damages in British history.”
Sir Richard Branson Jun 24, 2021 ▶ 21:00 Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps
Jun 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Virgin Atlantic was first to innovate in-flight safety videos
“That Virgin Atlantic was the first one to innovate on the safety video, because they're literally looking at Every single little micro step across the whole thing”
Reid Hoffman Jun 24, 2021 ▶ 15:27 Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps
Jun 24, 2021
Disclosure
Branson: Selling Virgin Records for $1B protected airline and label jobs
“And so I decided to sell the record company, which protected all the jobs in both the record company and the airline. And it also sent a message to British Airways, you know, he's just sold for a billion dollars layoff.”
Sir Richard Branson Jun 24, 2021 ▶ 20:02 Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps
Jun 24, 2021
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Branson: Virgin got Super Bowl airtime by flattering NBC cameramen on airship
“We had our airship company filming the Super Bowl for NBC, but they made it very clear that Super Bowl advertising is the most expensive in the world, and that they couldn't put their cameras up onto the Fly Virgin Atlantic logo on the side of the balloon. So …”
Sir Richard Branson Jun 24, 2021 ▶ 22:36 Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps
Jun 24, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Branson: British Airways illegally accessed Virgin data to poach delayed passengers
“They had a unit that illegally accessed our computer information, and then they would ring up Virgin passengers pretending to be from Virgin, telling the passengers their flight was delayed, and then switching them to British Airways.”
Sir Richard Branson Jun 24, 2021 ▶ 19:28 Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps
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