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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]

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3. www.forbes.com › profile › william-frankeWilliam Franke - Forbes

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   William Franke is the chairman of low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines and the owner of air transport-focused private equity firm Indigo Partners. Raised in Latin...

4. www.forbes.com › sites › giacomotogniniBudget Billionaire: How Frontier Airlines Chairman Bill ...

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   Apr 6, 2022 · The architect behind the proposed Frontier-Spirit merger was Frontier’s 84-year-old chairman Bill Franke, who also led Spirit from 2006 to 2013, when he left to join Frontier. Known as the...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Indigo_PartnersIndigo Partners - Wikipedia

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   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. [3]

6. www.ft.com › content › c9b7a98c-9dc6-426c-a828-839c0Buffett of the airline business is in for the long haul

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   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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7. www.flightglobal.com › interviews › what-keepsWhat keeps driving Bill Franke to invest in low-cost carriers

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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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   Who is William Franke?

   • William Augustus Franke is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Indigo Partners LLC, a private equity fund focused in air transportation. He was born on April 15, 1937, and has been the President at Franke and Company, Inc. since 1987.

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   Who is Bill Franke?

   • Bill Franke is the Chairman of Wizz Air since 2004 and Chairman of Frontier Airlines. He also serves as the President and Chairman of Bristol Group SA. Franke graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history in 1959 and an LL.B. in Law in 1961.

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   Why is Bill Franke called Mr Fixit?

   • Bill Franke Those successes earned Franke the moniker “Mr. Fixit.” They also led directly to his first foray in the airline industry in 1992, when he received a call from Arizona’s then-Governor Fife Symington, who asked him to help the ailing America West Airlines.

   Budget Billionaire: How Frontier Airlines Chairman Bill Franke ... - Forbes

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   Who is Bill Franke and what was his profession?

   • Bill Franke graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history in 1959 and an LL.B. in Law in 1961. In his early career, he was the CEO of a Fortune 500 forest products company, Southwest Forest Industries (now Smurfit-Stone Container), and Chairman of Circle K. Franke is known for restructuring Circle K through bankruptcy.

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   Could Franke be the most influential aviation investor of his time?

   • Bill Franke could be the most influential aviation investor of his time, as he ran straight into the industry despite investors like Warren Buffett staying away due to its inefficiencies. And he saw potential for profit.

   What keeps driving Bill Franke to invest in low-cost carriers

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   What did Franke learn about low-frills airlines?

   • Franke also learned best practices from two leaders in the low-frills airline space—Southwest and Irish carrier Ryanair—picking up advice from Southwest CEO and cofounder Herb Kelleher and investing in Ryanair before its 1997 IPO. (Kelleher, a fellow airline billionaire, died in 2019 at age 87.)

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9. www.businesstravelnews.com › 2021 › Bill-FrankeBill Franke, Indigo Partners Founder and Managing Partner

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   Dec 13, 2021 · Bill Franke, Indigo Partners Founder and Managing Partner. As the investor behind the growth of numerous low-cost carriers over the past few decades, The Financial Times this year dubbed Indigo Partners founder Bill Franke the “ [Warren] Buffett of the airline business.”.