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DECEMBER 2004 About a year after undergoing cosmetic surgery, the 68-year-old admits to hair transplants when pictures surface of him wearing a bandanna to welcome British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Sardinia...
...investors, who have so far put $312 million in capital into Virgin America, that this model can work in the U.S. "We're going to shake up the market," he says. Branson expects Virgin America to be profitable within two years. He has done this before: both his British and Australian airlines opened to wide skepticism, and both are profitable billion-dollar businesses. He is now laying out a flight plan for the next great American airline...
They're proud because even though this is a symbolic achievement, it's something no other airline in the world had done. The biggest carriers--American, Lufthansa, British Airways and Singapore Airlines--have all poured resources into expanding direct flights to Asia, but they are held back by their origins as so-called flag carriers, dedicated to travel to and from their home countries. Airline alliances like SkyTeam, Oneworld and Star Alliance link them, but without fully integrated marketing and sales it's difficult to build a cohesive global network, says Henry Joyner, senior vice president of planning for American...
...most important, Canadians do not see the Afghan conflict as directly relevant to their own security. Al-Qaeda has never staged an attack on Canadian soil. And although 24 Canadians were among the victims of 9/11 and terrorists were planning to blow up two Air Canada flights in the British terrorism plot of 2006, Canadians worry that fighting alongside the U.S. will increase--not decrease--the risk that they will become a target...
...counterintuitive to say the least. Back in 2001, when Claudio Del Vecchio, the son of an Italian eyeglasses magnate, was thinking about buying Brooks Brothers from the British retailer Marks & Spencer, the sales pitch included a familiar refrain: a new owner could close the Queens, N.Y., tie factory, move manufacturing overseas and save a ton of money. DelVecchio did buy the company, but he didn't close the factory. Instead, he plowed millions of dollars into improving it. Now every single Brooks tie, whether sold in Detroit, Milan or Dubai, starts there. "Of course we could go to China...