Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic

  • Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic

    "We’ve gone from two aircraft when I joined to what we are today with a fleet of 40 widebodies, almost 10,000 employees and a £3 billion turnover."

  • Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic

    “Since our move to Heathrow – we have pushed really hard, despite all the constraints, to grab as many routes and as many markets as we can. We now pretty much fly to a who’s who of the world’s great cities."

  • Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic

    “One of the reasons we were concerned about BMI was that it was feeding us and others and it had been providing competition to BA in the short-haul market in the same way that we have been in the long-haul markets."

  • Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic

    "We have a lot of co-operation with Star carriers, and that’s why we think it is important to have one strong carrier operating those ‘remedy routes’ that can provide connectivity to those carriers that used to have it with BMI."

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