Buster
What sour grapes. Exactly WHAT would someone in aviation have to do to get your approval?
RB had zilch to do with Ansett's demise...that was well handled by their greedy pilots and inept management as is now accepted by all. And anyway....remember that if Sir Reg himself hadn't nailed ANA to the wall you'd never have had an Ansett for the pilots and management etc to fritter away.
I'll bet one thing...that when Sir Richard starts international operations he does it with a little more class that did the Ansett people who left a 747 sitting at Sydney on its nose.
Virgin have offered jobs to lots of people and, more to the point, brought affordable flying to many passengers much much less well of than we pilots are.
He is no doubt a self opinionated jerk...but sadly they're the people who get things done.