Pre-Production - ENGLISH - Drama
Sir Freddie Laker pioneered budget international air travel, but going up against a national airline and the powers behind it would never to be easy. A British 'Charlie Wilsons War'
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Jonathan LYNN Producer(s) : Jim HOWELL, Kevin TOWNSEND, Simon BARNES
Today we take cheap air travel for granted but none of this would have been possible without Freddie Laker’s pioneering Skytrain. We have access to an unpublished book written by Freddie’s late friend and attorney Bob Beckmann that charts the last few years of Laker Airways and the conspiracy between the airlines that brought Freddie’s empire crashing to the ground.
Country(ies) : USA