Childrens Corner

They still didn’t look happy so I pressed on. I said that Virgin Music was making a lot of money. The money to start an airline was less han a third of a year’s profits. It was a lot, but not too much. Even f we lost it all, we would survive. ‘It’s not too big a risk. And it’ll be un.’ They weren’t happy with the word ‘fun’.

To them, Business was serious. It is. But, to me, having fun matters more. I want to live life to the full. I want new goals to reach for. I decided to call the airline irgin Atlantic.

I asked Sir Freddie Laker to lunch to talk about y new project. He was a great help. He had years of experience. ost of all he knew the problems in starting anew airline. His airline ad one well until the big airlines undercut him. They had the money o keep going. They could afford to make losses while they drove his ew airline out. Freddie ran on a shoestring. He ran out of money and ent bust. Over lunch, he told me how an airline worked. We iscussed what I should look out for.

Freddie said, ‘look out for dirty ricks from British Airways. BA’s dirty tricks ruined me. Don’t let them uin you. Complain as loudly as you can. My mistake was that I didn’t omplain.’

Taken From : Screw It,Let’s Do It