BA Management (Split From T5 Thread)

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It’s very sad as an outsider to watch British Airways slowly tear itself apart led by some truly terrible management and riven by internal rivalries and demarcation disputes. BA appears to have caught a very bad bout of what used to be called the “British disease". The present situation is very reminiscent of British Leyland in the 1970's at its worst and the outcome unless this situation is sorted out quickly will be precisely the same. No more British motor industry, no more national airline carrier. The comparisons between the two looks alarmingly similar just replace Willie Walsh with Michael Edwards. You really would have to be a fool or a total masochist to book an airline ticket with BA in its current chaotic state when there are so many excellent alternatives. As many airline tickets are booked well in advance it may be a few months yet before the markets punishment of BA really starts to painfully kick in. Somehow I can’t see the Government being terribly sympathetic to a bail out when Willie Walsh starts running out of cash even if the EU would allow it (check out Alitalia). The final straw may well be the forthcoming pilot’s strike which BA management have clearly done their best to provoke. What a mess and national disgrace.