- 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.
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