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Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (born 1922)
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Sir Frederick Alfred Laker 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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1966–1982 private British airline
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