As per our current Database, Freddie Laker has been died on Feb 9, 2006 (age 83).
When Freddie Laker die, Freddie Laker was 83 years old.
| Popular As | Freddie Laker |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Age | 83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 6, 1922 (England) |
| Birthday | August 6 |
| Town/City | England |
| Nationality | England |
Freddie Laker’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Freddie Laker was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Best known as the founder of an Independent British airline called Laker Airways, this Entrepreneur also established the Air Charter, Aviation Traders, and Channel Air Bridge companies.
After being forced to leave the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, he worked for an aviation company called Short Brothers before joining the Air Transport Auxiliary during the World War II years.
In Laker's honor, Virgin Atlantic named one of its airplane Models "The Spirit of Sir Freddie."
He was married four times -- to Joan Laker (for over twenty-five years); Rose Marie Black (for nearly a decade); Patricia Gates (during the late 1970s and early 1980s) and Jacqueline Harvey (from 1985 until his death in 2006) -- and fathered a total of four children.
United States President Jimmy Carter authorized Laker to conduct a one-year trial of his proposed Skytrain program, which, before it went bankrupt in 1982, allowed passengers to travel directly from London to New York for a cost of between thirty-two and thirty-seven English Pounds.
