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William Augustus Franke (born April 15, 1937) is an airline investor and a co-founder and Managing Partner of Indigo Partners LLC, a private equity fund focused in air transportation. He has been the President at Franke and Company, Inc. since 1987. Franke has been Chairman of Wizz Air since 2004, and is Chairman of Frontier Airlines. He also ...
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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...
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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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.
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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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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 - letting...
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.”.
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