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1985 press clipping from Skytrain teletext service announcing Virgin Atlantic's launch of cheap flights

1985 press clipping from Skytrain teletext service announcing Virgin Atlantic's launch of cheap flights

This 1985 teletext press clipping from Romeike & Curtice monitoring service announces Virgin Atlantic's inaugural flight launch, marking a new era of cheap air travel. The document shows how budget aviation continued after Laker Airways' collapse, with Virgin taking up the mantle of low-cost transatlantic flights that Sir Freddie Laker had pioneered.

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