Chris - Virgin timed this announcement perfectly.
It was the first working day after BA announced its biggest losses (for the year ended March) since privatisation and yesterday was a slow news day. Virgin's "profits" for the year ended February was the lead story on the business section of the BBC News website for most of the day. The story, on the face of it, gave the impression that Virgin was outperforming BA and tried to allay any concerns the public may have about Virgin's financial performance.
Whilst most newspapers eventually managed to get to the bottom of the story, BBC News should frankly be ashamed of itself for, once again, reproducing Virgin spin.
It's all absolutely typical of Virgin's spin doctor Paul Charles.
I would like to think that Virgin's credibility with the media is shot to pieces after this episode, but given how they know to feed the media a good story, I doubt it.
Last edited by LD12986; 27th May 2009 at 21:20.