Bealine - your wrote:
The City can't be entirely stupid though, can it? If the Broughton/Walsh combo is left in place, there is a strong possibility that British Airways could collapse! These two are bringing the company to the very brink!
The company is already at the brink. If the Broughton/Walsh combo don't push through the reforms BA will collapse. Open your eyes man!
You also wrote:
although British Airways has manufactured its own downfall by successively leading Price Wars year after year after year ever since privatisation. The glorious years of "World Offers" and "Winter Warmers" have bitten us in the bum!
Do you think BA are stupid enough to cut fares when they can fill planes? Or do you think they cut fares because nobody was flying and they needed to stimulate demand to keep the cash flow up?
[i]What I also cannot understand is how the Government can stand idly by, and watch the Unions being deliberately provoked in this way, in order to start an all out war!"
Look outside into the real world. Cuts here, cuts there, cuts everywhere!!! Those are the people who buy our tickets and pay our wages. BA has to make cuts just like every other company that wants to survive. Can you see any other airline that isn't scaling back at the moment? The government is standing by because they know fine well that companies have to restructure in the bad times. If you think New Labour will be riding in on a white charger to strike down the board you are mistaken.