Freddie Laker: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:37, 30 April 2006

Revision as of 22:13, 30 April 2006

Line 19:

Laker is also remembered for his famous advice to fellow airline entrepreneurs [[Sir Richard Branson]], of [[Virgin Atlantic]], and [[Stelios Haji-Ioannou]], of [[Easyjet|easyJet]], to "sue the bastards" — a reference to the bullying tactics of [[British Airways]] in trying to force the no-frills upstarts out of business. Virgin Atlantic later named one of its [[Boeing 747]]s ''The Spirit of Sir Freddie''.

Sir Freddie Laker divided his final years living both in his waterfront home in Lucaya, Grand Bahama Island where he kept his yacht, The Lady Jacqueline, and in Florida. Sir Freddie died on February 9, 2006, at age 83 in a suburban Miami hospital in Hollywood, Florida following complications from cardiac surgery to implant a pacemaker. He was survived by his fourth wife, Jacqueline Harvey, a former airline hostess he married in 1985 and also by his two children: a daughter, Elaine, by his first wife Joan (with whom he also had a son who died in 1968 at age 17 after crashing a sports car Freddy had given him for his birthday -- the marriage collapsed that same year;) and a son, FreddyFreddie Allen, born to his third wife, Priscilla Gates (with whom he also had another son who died in infancy.)

==External links==