In the meantime radio gossip has got a very damaging effect on the company...and it may collapse if the bookings stop dry because a vicious rumour was started.
It is a fact that aircraft, including two United 747s, were chartered and positioned to various places in southern europe where Brits go for holidays etc. Further, arrival boards at UK airports showed United flights arriving from those places in southern europe in patterns that appeared to replicate ZB schedules
People on this on this forum and, more pertinently in social media, have discussed and perhaps speculated on reasons for that. When that speculation is, inevitably, picked up by mainstream media then another risk adds to those already being discussed.
That's 21st century reality.