Sir Freddie Laker, low-fares pioneer died yesterday in Miami. An obituary appeared earlier today on this web site. Below are is a timeline of his life, and below that are some vintage photos of Laker ...

Sir Freddie Laker, who died in Miami yesterday aged 83, is remembered by the aviation community throughout the world for his entrepreneurial acumen, his flamboyant charm, but most of all for being the ...

Sir Freddie Laker, who changed the face of air travel with his low-cost trans-Atlantic Skytrain service that challenged the industry giants in the 1970s, has died. He was 83. Laker died Thursday at a ...

Sir Freddie Laker was one of the classic heroes of the 20th century, and ever since I was a teenager, a personal hero of mine. For those who don’t remember Sir Freddie, he was the inventor of the ...

Freddie Laker, a British entrepreneur who pioneered cheap flights across the Atlantic only to get driven out when bigger, traditional airlines lowered their fares, has died at the age of 83. Laker, or ...

Readers of a certain age will recall that in 1977 Britain's Sir Freddie Laker brought low-priced travel to the North Atlantic with Skytrain. It cut one-way London-New York fares from $382 to just $135 ...

Today we take the idea of cheap air travel to any destination we like for granted. But up until the end of the 1970s, flying was extremely expensive due to a combination of price regulation, lack of ...

Sir Freddie Laker (August 6, 1922 - Feb. 9, 2006)Sir Freddie passed at 4:55 AM on Thursday morning in Hollywood, Florida. He’ll be remembered long into the future for his contributions to aviation and ...