Craig Kreeger, Virgin Atlantic CEO, talks the long haul

The clock is ticking on one of the aviation industry’s most colourful wagers. In 2012, Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways, bet Sir Richard Branson a “knee in the groin” that the Virgin Atlantic brand would disappear within five years, after US carrier Delta Air Lines bought a 49 per cent stake in the British carrier.

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google "Craig Kreeger, Virgin Atlantic CEO, talks the long haul" for the complete article.

I'm afraid your link goes to a paid subscription only page/website.
The Google search brings up the sane page but doesn't seem to have any links to the story on other sites.

strange, my google brings up a link to the full article(under google "In the news") and I'm not a FT subscriber.

one interesting excerpt(FT don't permit a complete copy):


He denies the suggestion that Virgin Atlantic is being run from the US.
“Yes, we took planes out of four other long-haul markets and ended up moving them into the US market, taking the transatlantic portion of our network to about 70 per cent. But coincidentally, that’s exactly the same percentage that the airline had in 1999 and 2000, its last really successful years. So we have returned Virgin Atlantic back to the mixture that it was most successful with,” says Mr Kreeger.

Got it now, thanks. Interesting stuff.