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Old 15th May 2008, 11:45
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Wonder if BA will press LH to not oppose BA/AA closer relations due this and the 'Open Skies' malarky (and I don't mean the bastard-son-of-BA)
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Old 15th May 2008, 13:21
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Makes me wonder how BA crews would respond to WW deciding to outsource the LCY-New York or Orly-Newark routes to PrivatAir.
Of course all 'informed' individuals realise that 'Scope' prevents the former, and BA are not proposing the latter. I wonder why???
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Old 15th May 2008, 14:36
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The Germans are coming

"Zeee Germansss are going to takeover your flagcarrier!"

I wouldn't trust BA to be a bag carrier never mind a flag carrier
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correct me if im wrong but isn't Virgin the flag carrier???
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Old 15th May 2008, 16:33
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BA are discussing how much LH wants for it's stake in BMI.
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Old 15th May 2008, 16:43
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Dear Willy, you don't know us all by name but we are extremely interested in why you are chatting with Fritz today. We take a great interest in your company and thrive at any opportunity to throw some mud in your direction. Indeed, may we congratulate you for giving us hours of fun with the T5 debacle.

So, if you would be so kind, how about registering with Danny's mates, getting a user name and spilling the beans on our forum.

Yours

The Prooners.
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Who is "Fritz" ?
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Old 15th May 2008, 21:39
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And of course the difference between our bmi friends getting on board with BA -v- getting on board with Lufty would be that under UK law, seniority lists would have to be integrated (in the BA case), whereas under German employment law, (and an arguably stronger Union) it will most definitely be "welcome to zee bottom of zee list".
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Hetfield,

'Fritz' is a generic name for people of Teutonic extraction (ie. the Germans).

Like Poms being referred to as 'Tommy' by the Frtizes during WW2.
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Thx.

regards hetfield



May 16th 2008
(63 years after WW2)
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Old 17th May 2008, 05:05
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Guys, it`s pretty simple.

BA and LH are the 2 most profitable airlines in Europe.

Topic of the day was how to split up the remaining European airlines

Face it,besides AF/KLM most of them are in serious trouble. SAS, Alitalia, Austrian, Olympic, Iberia and so on......

Happy ldgs
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Old 17th May 2008, 09:18
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63 years after WW2 .....


.....They started it
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Old 17th May 2008, 14:20
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Angels Playmate:

You mean BA will pick up AZ, IB and evtl. Olympic. WW fixing AZ, can't be worse than Terrible 5.
Or will Olympic finally go to Ukrainian or PIA?

This means that Lufty will pick up BMI, Brussels, AUA and SAS ?

As a result I can see a significant improvement in coffee quality on BA flights.
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Old 12th Jun 2008, 18:04
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fish Lufthansa buy BMI and selling remains to BA

Have heard from some inside chaps that Lufthansa is definitely taking it's option on BMI towards the end of the year.

They are taking some of BMI's LHR slots and they are currently in talks with BA as to a sale price for the rest of the operation (excluding Baby and Regional). Does anybody have details on this ?

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Old 12th Jun 2008, 18:52
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All covered here Prof.

PS Definitely is definitely spelt definitely not definately
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Old 12th Jun 2008, 20:49
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Hands up all those who think the spelling police are as big a pain-in-the-a.r.s .e as the guard police
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Old 12th Jun 2008, 21:00
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Any idea why zee Germans do not want regional? Perhaps they would be retained for train set purposes LOL.

D and F
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Old 12th Jun 2008, 23:16
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BMI - Laufthansa

It was reported a while ago that Laufthansa were going to exercise their options with bmi. I understand when the comment was made it was regretted due to the reaction caused.
My thoughts are; Yes, Laufthansa have options and yes I,m sure they will excersise them at some point in the future. When? Only a few key players know the answer to that question and they are certainly not going to talk about it outside of their group. So all talk about bmi and Laufthansa is just speculation. Therefore it is not worth losing sweat over rumours.

Ref bmi baby and Regional - What value do they hold for Laufthansa? I would have thought the LHR slots are the driver for any future decision.

My thoughts only!
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Old 13th Jun 2008, 06:28
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By this do you mean that BA would be offered some slots not to oppose this merger. Would not Virgin also want a sweeterner and I fear BA may have more slots than what they know what to do with this winter and will have a jobsworth using there own. There are always slots for sale at LHR and this winetr will be a good time to buy as for once they may not be so expensive.
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Old 13th Jun 2008, 07:43
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The problem is buying prime time LHR slots...almost impossible to get hold of.
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