Virgin Atlantic CEO reveals changes that will make you want to book your next trip with the airline

Talking Points

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The head of one of the most iconic brands in aviation stopped by the TPG office for an episode of Talking Points. Shai Weiss, the CEO of Virgin Atlantic, joined Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, to discuss why the Heathrow expansion is essential to the airline's plan become Britain's second flag carrier, the roll out of the Airbus A350s and the Upper Class Suites, and how the airline is committed to shrinking its carbon footprint.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly. You know when you think
0:06.8	about airlines, you know, very few are sexy and cool. A lot of times people think you know they just get you from point A to
0:13.9	point B but there are some brands out there that really do push the boundaries and
0:18.7	make flying fun and certainly Virgin Atlantic is one of them.
0:23.0	And I'm excited to welcome our guest today,
0:25.7	the CEO of Virgin Atlantic, Shai Weiss.
0:28.2	Shai, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:30.0	What a pleasure.
0:30.9	So let's just talk about your past.
0:32.3	When you were a little kid, did you want to be an airline CEO?
0:35.0	I didn't think I knew what planes were when I was a kid.
0:38.0	So no, no, I couldn't say that I dreamt of being an airline.
0:41.0	Do you remember your first flight?
0:42.0	I do. It was to Amsterdam. My mother is Dutch and my grandparents lived in Amsterdam and it was a flight to Amsterdam. I do, but I didn't grow up thinking about becoming a CEO
0:53.2	definitely not in aviation you know I grew up in Jerusalem in Israel it wasn't
0:57.6	exactly the thing that people talked about yeah so was that first flight on
1:02.1	L. L. L. I think it was KLM, which is, which is for two it is given the fact that they're going to be our partners. Yes, yes. So you ended up, you went to a business school in New York City. I did. You did your stint in the Israeli Army
1:13.7	like all good Israelis right? Yep. And there was no aviation. You weren't in the
1:17.4	Air Force or anything there. Just trying to figure out at what point in life
1:20.7	you got pointed in the direction of aviation because every
1:23.4	CEOs some were rock band stars and it's I thought about aviation as soon as I
1:29.0	started working in Virgin Atlantic you know I was working with the Virgin
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