anotonovman
But really, if youre price fixing, you have to have someone to fix with! Surely one party cant be totally responsible
They colluded with VS who realised the error of their ways and reported the scam. According to the BBC report, the OFT says that VS is not expected to be fined.
It appears that BA wanted to keep the headline price of their tickets down to compete with other carriers but then used fuel surcharge to keep prices up. It is an old (and legal) process that worked for them in previous decades and might have worked again, had they not have broken the law and tried to ensure that their prices remained high.
I would suggest that one reason is that BA, in common with so many other companies, has deliberately lost too many of it's older managers. That is, the one's with the memory to recall previous problems/failures/misdoings in the company and warn the younger managers off such behaviour. It's a simple example of why each generation has to learn the same lessons that their father's learnt. And it usually
is fathers not mothers...