Freddie Laker

If you want to know a bit more about this pioneer of tourism, you can watch the following video.



This is the second part. I hope it helps you to understand his achievements and improve your listening skills.

Freddie Laker

Do you know any low-cost ailines? Have you ever travelled with them? Did you know that for decades airlines operated a virtual monopoly and charged astronomical prices and that it was first challenged by Freddie Laker in the seventies with his budget Skytrain flights to the USA?
Who was this man? Find out more about him on the internet and answer the following questions.

1. Where was he from?


2. Did he have any titles? Why?


3. What did he found?


4. What was the first airline in the world to offer low international fares?


5. What is the name of the airport in which design and development he was involved?


6. When and where did he die?