ba's appalling vandalism and dog-in-the-manger attitude is one reason why I will never, ever fly with them.
The other being the 'Dirty Tricks' era - which is clearly not dead as the recent price-fixing scandal revealed.
I have known for some time that the Le Bourget aircraft is being maintained in as near to airworthy condition as can be achieved. I was told that the President had decreed that it would be so.
For all her numerous faults, I'm convinced that Mad old Maggie wouldn't have allowed Skippy to destroy the only decent thing about ba. It would have been a no-tea handbagging interview, at the very least. Whereas that gurning idiot coudn't give a damn.