Founded Laker Airways, the first airline in the world to offer low
international fares. Their Skytrain service offered one ways between
New York and London for only US$100.
More than anyone else in the UK in the last 50 years he redefined air
transport for the benefit of ordinary people.
Was rewarded in 1978 with a knighthood. It was given to him by a Labour
government which he had spent so long reviling for failing to support
him.