Fred Finn

TRAVELLING MAN

Fred Finn once had a career involving a great deal of business travel. Now his career is based on his experience as a traveller, international contracts and a “love affair” with flying and Concorde in particular.
Fred Finn has the distinction of achieving something that no other human being has accomplished. Fred is the world’s most travelled person. The Guinness Book of Records officially confirms this title. He has three records 15.0 million miles, a distance which equates to 33 round trips to the moon or 671 circuits of the globe, his record breaking 718 flights in Concorde will never be broken as Concorde has reached the end of it’s commercial life. A photograph of Fred with a Rolls Royce Car and Concorde has now become the most reproduced magazine cover in history, being reproduced more than 100 million times, the equivalent of 117 piles of Guinness Books the height of mount Everest. Fred will be celebrating 15 million miles of flight sometime next year.
Once news of his remarkable records began to come to the attention of the public, the spotlight of media attention came to rest on this unlikely celebrity. Time Life published the first profile of Fred in 1977; in 1984 interviews with the remarkable Mr Finn appeared no less than four times in Forbes Magazine another record breaking achievement. It was as a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, however that Fred’s fame began to spread to a wider audience, world-wide television and public appearances followed including an appropriate slot on programmes such as Wogan, This Morning Show, presenting his own travel slots on national TV. Fred became guest editor of the Financial Times World Hotel Directory, he was awarded a contract to write for ABC International to write a regular travel column, he became a consultant to many leading names in the aviation and travel related industry. Fred helped Richard Branson with the start up of Virgin Atlantic Airways. Fred appropriately flew his 10 million mile flight with Virgin Atlantic attracting world wide attention. Richard Branson and Fred have flown together with the Red Arrows, and the last flight of the F4 Phantom a chance not ever given to many civilians, Richard has been on one of Fred famous safari’s to Kenya. Fred’s 11 million-mile flight was on Kenya Airways to Kenya the event was seen on 1.5 billion television sets around the world, 5000 pictures of Fred with the Kenya Airways Airbus and his record breaki