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pj67coll Yes, I understand that, I was just being rather pedantic. I know that the definition of 'national' has changed in the way that many words change their definition. A hundred years ago, countries had 'their' steamship company and then we had airlines and, until something else comes along, we shall have 'national' airlines!
For me, having lived in several countries predominantly UK and being British, I do not have a bias towards this country. I tend to look internationally and any of those exhortations to 'buy British' and so on, pass me by. One friend of mine insists that he is English that the main problem with Gordon Brown was that he was 'foreign' and should not have been in charge of the country. I find that view bemusing.
Now back to the the nation's favourite airline ...