Try another search. Randy Petersen named the Freddies after Sir Freddie Laker, the senior, who pioneered low-cost TATL service with Laker Airways' Skytrain (very big among college students of my generation, late '70s) and who died in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Laker

I don't know what his (apparent) son does or is up to, but the name should open some doors.