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Richard Branson Now Hyping Virgin Russia

January 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM | 0 Comments

Good Lord, Branson! Why don't you just announce that you're starting an airline in every country on Earth and be done with it? We know it'd be an awesome press conference.

The latest idea from the serial airline starter is indeed Virgin Russia. Branson is in talks, he says, with two or three investors, and he's contacted Russian LCC Sky Express about doing some kind of a deal. Of course, this would be his second Asian airline if all goes well; he announced a bid for India early last week.

Still, announcing plans and actually going wheels up are two very different things. The Russian Transportation Ministry--who you'd think should know about this stuff--says it hasn't yet heard anything about Branson's plans.

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