Skroo turner biography

Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner was raised near Stanthorpe, and trained as a veterinary surgeon.

In 1973, he and two mates bought a couple of double-decker buses in England and began a holiday travel company, Top Deck Travel. With only a bus load of energy, entrepreneurship and youthful exuberance, they organised bus tours to the continent and parts of North Africa.

By 1980 the business had a fleet of seventy to eighty buses.

Much has been written about Graham Turner's career and how he grew Flight Centre from a single shop in to a global company.

In 1981, Skroo returned to Australia and established the Flight Centre travel business. It was an opportune moment as the airline ticketing industry had recently been deregulated, allowing the sale of discounted tickets for the first time.

Under Skroo’s dynamic leadership Flight Centre took off, providing the cheapest possible pricing, deriving profits from the volume of sales. Skroo floated the company in 1995, as much to allow employee