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William Augustus Franke (born April 15, 1937) [1] is an airline investor and a co-founder and Managing Partner of Indigo Partners LLC, a private equity fund focused in air transportation. [2][3] He has been the President at Franke and Company, Inc. since 1987. [4]
Sep 17, 2021 · Bill Franke has spent 20 years disproving Warren Buffett’s adage that airlines are a “death trap for investors”. But as a novice private equity executive touting his first fund in 2002, he...
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Aug 20, 2019 · Everything Franke does comes down to cost reduction to improve the bottom line: getting aircraft cheap, slashing inefficient costs, charging passengers ancillary fees, and so on.
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The company had a partnership with Enerjet when it launched the now defunct Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Lynx Air. [2] Indigo Partners was founded by Bill Franke and has set up a number of ultra-low-cost airlines around the world. It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
William Franke is the chairman of low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines and the owner of air transport-focused private equity firm Indigo Partners.
Feb 8, 2022 · Feb 8 (Reuters) - Veteran budget airline investor Bill Franke has pledged to avoid what he once called the "path to hell" after masterminding a $2.9 billion merger of discount airlines -...
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Nov 14, 2021 · Airbus has secured a multibillion-dollar order for 255 single-aisle jets from veteran airline investor Bill Franke, a deal that underlines the plane-maker’s forecast that the industry is poised...
