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British billionaire Richard Branson travels into space aboard the VSS "Unity", a spaceplane owned and operated by the space flight company Virgin Galactic. At the age of 70, he is the second oldest person to travel to outer space.
2021-07-11

An outage in the Sabre passenger service system used by multiple airlines causes flight issues in multiple countries. The system is used for check-ins, selling tickets, and dispatching flights. Issues are reported with Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, Rex Airlines, and Virgin Australia. The vendor's redundancy systems are not activated during the outage.
2021-05-21

Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013.
2011-10-17

Twenty people including British billionaire Richard Branson and actress Kate Winslet have to be rescued after Hurricane Irene destroys Branson's mansion on Necker Island in the Caribbean Sea.
2011-08-22

Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia cancel flights to New Zealand and postpone flights to Argentina due to the continued presence of volcanic ash from the 2011 Puyehue eruption.
2011-06-16

Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia suspends flights to Perth, Western Australia, due to ash from the eruption in Chile, with flights to Tasmania and New Zealand also cancelled.
2011-06-15

Virgin Blue fights for approval of its transtasman alliance with Air New Zealand.
2010-09-14

Sir Richard Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years. [http:--current.com-1k8ts4c (Current TV)]date=August 2019 [http:--www.thisismoney.co.uk-news-article.html?in_article_id=499145&in_page_id=2 (thisismoney)] [https:--www.telegraph.co.uk-finance-financetopics-oilprices-7203172-Britain-faces-oil-crunch-within-five-years-Richard-Branson-warns.html (Telegraph)] [http:--theenergycollective.com-TheEnergyCollective-58428 (theenergycollective)]date=August 2019
2010-02-7