Flight Centre co-founder & CEO Graham "Skroo" Turner on shifting into survival mode, to battle the Covid19 crisis decimating the travel sector. How tough decisions averted a catastrophe for the global empire he built 38 yrs ago & how it survives.

Flight Centre co-founder Graham Skroo Turner witnessed bookings & sales in the giant global travel company’s leisure division plunge 97%, within just 1 week in March, as nations, Governments & states closed borders; ordered citizens & businesses into lockdown; and planes essentially stopped flying. How Skroo Turner & his leadership team went straight into survival mode to shore up capital & protect the jobs & company he’s built up, after starting with just 1 shop 38 years ago. The toughest decision? Standing down a staggering 70% of his 20,000-strong workforce. While the respected serial entrepreneur & business veteran reckons he’s faced several disasters to hit travel sector – 9/11, the GFC, 2 Gulf Wars – and come through them, in Part 1 of our interview, he says nothing NOTHING compares to the Covid19 crisis that engulfed the world in March, April & May 2020.