most times when i fly back to japan I travel with virgin atlantic, they are helpful and is a more relaxing airline to take compared to the other one.
HistoryVirgin atlantic actually used to be called laker airways which was set up after the falkland wars and so the idea was for people to be able to fly from england to the falklands. It was firstly set up by a man called randolph fields, who later on met Richard Branson at a party in london and decided to be business partners. There were many troubles involved with the company during this period and fighting about the operations of the airline. Field died from cancer in later years, but had been able to see the positive changes that had become of his airline, now called Virgin Atlantic, recently which just became a part of the Skyteam. 
It is an English company which is part of the Sir Richard Branson virgin group.n june 22nd in 1984 the company was set up. It first only came from gatwick and Newark using the boeing 747 200. Virgin atlantic made large profits in the first 12 months that it had been set up in. In 1986 another boeing 747 was added to the company. Now the company also flew to New york. Tokyo was the next flight added in 1989. VIrgin atlantic has not only just been a form of transport, but also has helped in disasters. In october in 2005, It helped with the earthquake in islamabad, Pakistan with 55 tones of foods and goods that would help with the victim of the kashmir earthquake.
Currently the company has been testing using bio fuels. In 2008 the planes tried to use plant based bio fuels, which was 20% of it's energy. It is now testing algae based fuels.
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| Upper class here is just perfect, as you see here there is even a really cool bar. if you are bored on a long flight. |
In 2011 virgin atlantic travelled 5.3 million passengers, making it the eight largest Uk airline in the term of passenger volume. In 2012 the company made a loss of 80.2 million pounds on a turnover of 2,7040 million pounds. So the size of it is HUGE.......
