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Old 30th Mar 2020, 17:19
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Originally Posted by xray one
Ok esscee I'll bite...

So 10,000 jobs down the drain...whilst BA becomes a monopoly and prices get higher. Guess you're happy if you work for BA or are you just a un-informed troll...
Quite
I doubt there are many institutions with funds who would invest in any airline at the moment.
VS would like to expand to South America but can’t because of the lack of slots at LHR. One of the main reasons why BA (of dirty tricks infamy) doesn't want the 3rd runway so as to protect their British long haul monopoly
It has a modern fleet although badly affected by the RR Trent issues., introduced Premium Economy (w cl). Was one of the leaders of the team that introduced the industry standard for computerised Baggage Reconciliation following Lockerbie,
SRB had the guts to try to compete against all the advice against a monolithic monster in BA.
He employed good people Who built the airline and achieved more than many expected.
Don’t write it off. The U.K. government is keen not to see good companies fail because of C19



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