This article is about the founder of the airline Laker Airways. For Laker's son and a founder of Chameleon Collective, see Freddie A. Laker.
English airline entrepreneur (1922–2006)
Sir Freddie Laker
Born
Frederick Alfred Laker
(1922-08-06)6 August 1922
Canterbury, Kent, England
Died
9 February 2006(2006-02-09) (aged 83)
Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Founder and chairman of Laker Airways, adviser of Virgin Atlantic
Spouses
Joan Laker
(m. 1942–1968)
Rose Marie Black
(m. 1968–1975)
Patricia Gates
(m. 1975–1982)
Jacqueline Harvey
(m. 1985–2006)
Children
4
Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as Freddie Laker, he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "low cost / no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be successful worldwide when employed by companies such as Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, easyJet, Norwegian Air, and AirAsia.
Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which...
recession, operating its last flight on 5 February 1982. FreddieLaker announced the creation of Laker Airways in February of 1966. The airline commenced commercial...
reached number 40 in the UK Albums Chart in April 1979. The track "FreddieLaker (Concorde and Eurobus)" was released as a single on 13 April 1979, backed...
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specialising in cross-Channel vehicle-cum-passenger ferry services. FreddieLaker started Channel Air Bridge as a sister airline of Air Charter on a provisional...
Fly me, I'm Freddie!, pp. 93–98 "Air Commerce, Mr Laker on South America". Flight International: 656. 15 October 1964. "Air Commerce, Mr Laker on South America"...
member of the airline and aircraft engineering group controlled by FreddieLaker. The ATL-90 Accountant was a turboprop airliner designed as a replacement...
he met FreddieLaker. Following Laker's departure from BUA in 1965, Hellary followed Laker and took up the position of chief pilot for Laker's new airline...
Cup victory in Australia. FreddieLaker, who had pioneered low-fare commercial transatlantic routes and was the founder of Laker Airways, became interested...
18th-century surgeon David Gower, cricketer William Harvey, physician Sir FreddieLaker, airline entrepreneur Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright W. Somerset...
frontman Freddie Mercury, England World Cup winner Bobby Moore, novelist Jane Austen, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and aviation entrepreneur FreddieLaker. In...
established by FreddieLaker at Bovingdon in Hertfordshire, England, in 1947 to trade in war-surplus aircraft and spares. Two years later, Laker shifted his...
engines. It was a Douglas DC-4-based air ferry conversion developed by FreddieLaker's Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), with a capacity generally...
Vickers/BAC by FreddieLaker and converted from Type 1101 to Type 1109 in 1968. It was initially leased to Middle East Airlines, but returned to Laker in 1969...
time. We were in each other's pockets, travelling in a minibus and on FreddieLaker planes. It was getting tiring, but we lived on the adrenalin of it."...
monarch). An exception is Spirit of Sir Freddie. An early Boeing 747, it was named in honour of FreddieLaker of Laker Airways, who helped Virgin Atlantic...
a 737 MAX was performed on 15 July 2017, with a MAX 8 featuring Sir FreddieLaker on its tailfin, between Edinburgh Airport in Scotland and Bradley International...
Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick (Freddie), and Grace Pearl. Charles Frederick "Freddie" Ingalls was born on November 1, 1875, in Walnut...
Operations with these twin-engined aircraft continued until February 1951. FreddieLaker followed up his acquisition of bankrupt Surrey Flying Services in February...
Norwegian took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX, which featured FreddieLaker on its tailfin and was registered to Norwegian Air International. The...
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