Today’s lesson from Richard Branson is expand your services to places you are already servicing. One of his many airlines flys to several cities where they want to develoop hip urban upscale hotels. Look at what add-on services you can add to what you already have.
Virgin Group is set to launch a new urban hotel brand in the next three months, according to Marketing Week.
Jackie McQuillan spokeswoman for the Virgin Group said it was “very much in the development stage†and will be an “urban hotel conceptâ€.
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has said he would like to develop a hotel brand based on Starwood’s W hotel, “urban townhouse properties, halfway between a hotel and a private clubâ€.
It has been suggested that the first properties will be in New York, London and Los Angeles, all served by the company’s airline Virgin Atlantic.
Virgin Group to launch urban hotel brand
What virgins and carbon scrubbers have in common is Richard Branson. Here are a select few articles about Richard Branson in the last week and what you can learn from them.
The case study is very interesting and you’ll learn alot about business. The carbon scrubber’s article is a good step toward getting carbon dioxide out of the air. Richard Branson is helping a lot sponsoring this $25 million contest. Virgin Radio was sold and the new owners don’t get the name Virgin, just the radio station. Branson’s brand name of Virgin is so special that it is never for sale, an important lesson.
And my much loved airlines Silverjet went out of business. Nan and I flew on them last year to London. They were fantastic. Fantastic service, great boarding lounge and business class seating on the entire jet. Traveling business class was divine. Richard Branson thinks business-only airlines are not viable. With Silverjet and a few others going out of business maybe Richard Branson is correct. I hope not, we have tickets on another business-class only airline Le Avion to Paris in 20 days.
Richard Branson : Virgin Group of Companies Case Study
By Antonio Jr Fabe
Business case study of the Virgin Group of Companies, which are being managed and owned by Richard Branson.
Carbon scrubber’ breakthrough
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
Last year Richard Branson and Al Gore offered $25 million for any invention that can remove ‘significant’ amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. …
Farewell Virgin Radio, hello…. what exactly?
guardian.co.uk - UK
Except not for much longer, after the national music station was bought by the Times of India Group and Richard Branson took his Virgin brand back. …
And another one gone: Silverjet ceases operations
… and oil prices continuing to rise, surely only die-hard risk takers will be willing to invest in a business-class-only airline right now. Is it time to say Sir Richard Branson called it right on business-only airlines?
With American Airlines making a major customer service mistake that with this current airline environment could spell the end of the airline and with fuel costs a well run company like Virgin America can do very well in the USA.
When the economy for an industry is growing companies that are well run can stay in business, but when the economy gets hard a ton of companies will go out of business. Well run companies will last, poorly run companies will go out of business.
The weak American economy will force more U.S. airlines, including a major carrier, into bankruptcy within 18 months, Virgin Atlantic Airways chief Richard Branson said Thursday.
Fuel costs, up 70% from last year, are likely to remain high, the British entrepreneur said in a meeting with reporters here. Facing a recession, airlines wont be able to charge enough for tickets to make up that expense, he said.
Branson declined to say which airlines he thinks are likely to wind up in Chapter 11.
In recent weeks, several small airlines, including Aloha Airlines Inc., ATA Airlines and Champion Air, a charter carrier, have abruptly stopped service.
Failing airlines will benefit competitors, Branson said. For example, it will be easier for Virgin to acquire new aircraft, which currently are in short supply.
Virgins Branson Sees More US Airline Bankruptcies Ahead
Richard Branson is at it again. I’m surprised he hadn’t done this before.
Some 25 years after the entrepreneur chartered a private jet to fly 50 passengers and himself from the Beef Island, Tortola airport to Puerto Rico after their original flight was cancelled, Branson will launch on Tuesday Virgin Charter, an online service to charter private aircraft.
Branson said the new business will court the approximate $30 billion (15 billion pounds) market for booking private air travel by letting operators market availability and allowing customers to bid and book online.
Branson’s online charter plane service launches - International Herald Tribune
Virgin Charter.com
Richard Branson’s new biofuel plane apparently has algae in part of the secret biofuel recipe. It will fly today.
This is a great moment because it is the first time in history that air transportation and alternative fuel are being shown as commercially viable.
This morning Virgin Atlantic and its suppliers Boeing and GE will stage a test flight of the world’s first commercial biofuel plane.One of the airline’s top pilots, Captain Geoff Andreason, Virgin Atlantic’s chief Boeing pilot, will fly his plane from Heathrow to Amsterdam. It is a one-and-a-half hour flight and the assembled company watches on big screens as the plane takes off and lands.
One of the plane’s four engines will be run on a composite fuel, which is 75 per cent standard aviation fuel and 25 per cent a secret biofuel recipe.
Algae are fuelling Branson’s maiden flight - Telegraph
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