Branson viewing to buy Gatwick Airport

[PAXboy]

It is always fascinating to see the RB mud slingers hit the forum as rapidly as the anti-MoLers. The improvements in UK based scheduled air travel in the UK in the past 21+ years owe a VERY considerable amount to RB. Around the world, he has set up LCCs and created jobs in the airline world. His high standards drove BA to improve their oferring.

VAFFPAX gives a good summary of the problems that he dealt with of taking on decades of neglect in the UK railways. That covered equipment, infrastructure and staff - all had been broken down by successive UK govts and he set about improving it.

I am sure that he is not unequivocally a good man but, he has consistently won in court against his detractors and yet ... here comes the mud once again.