Barbara Ward is/was on the advisory Board of LEK consulting.
..And what do we find?
Airline Consolidation: L.E.K. was the only strategic advisor on the world’s largest airline merger. In fact, our pedigree in airline mergers and acquisitions (M&A) goes back nearly 20 years with the highly successful merger between Qantas and Australian Airlines. Since then we have been called upon to assess most airline M&A opportunities.
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