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Old 7th Feb 2006, 11:54
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Made the BBC this lunch time (You and Yours BBC R4).

Summary:

SA airways cancelling flights in March. Apparently they staged a flight through Milan and due to bad weather had passengers stuck in the terminal for 36 hours because they had no visas. Makes one wonder why they went there if the weather was that bad.

American surcharging customers £3 each way to recover a $20k per day tanking cost.

Lots of complaints about unfair practice although they helped form the plan and agreed to it in the first place.

Threats about taking action over anti-competitive practice ahead of a “crisis meeting”.

One spokesman from the US said rationing should be based on distance travelled ignoring lower rations already in place for short haul, this was picked up by the MD of LHR but not followed though.
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