The Ledger
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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.”
Branson: Virgin won the biggest legal damages in British history
“We won the biggest damages in British history.”
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”
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.”
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 …”