Air Berlin files for Insolvency
My memory may be fading, but I don't recall the UK government chucking money at DA or BD, in fact in the case of the latter, the previous owner, Lufthansa did kill off the BMI Baby division, before flogging the BMI "mainline" chunk to BA.
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Lufthansa has received more German government support in its bid to take over substantial assets of insolvent rival Air Berlin, with German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries saying she would welcome such a move.
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Except in the case of BCAL, weren't these takeovers completed without the implicit involvement of the UK government.
My memory may be fading, but I don't recall the UK government chucking money at DA or BD, in fact in the case of the latter, the previous owner, Lufthansa did kill off the BMI Baby division, before flogging the BMI "mainline" chunk to BA.
My memory may be fading, but I don't recall the UK government chucking money at DA or BD, in fact in the case of the latter, the previous owner, Lufthansa did kill off the BMI Baby division, before flogging the BMI "mainline" chunk to BA.
How about BA buying out Brymon and Manx simply for their LHR slots then casting them aside, Maggie, whilst desperate to privatise the national debt, allowed BA to put Freddie Laker, illegally, out of business, so what has changed except the nationality, these days the Germans are looking after their own whilst the French, to name but another, have been doing it all along.
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The past is the past. I think that this year the Italian government has been careful to play by the book. I've haven't seen MOL complaining. I think that he has enough muscle to ensure that even Germany does follow the rules also. That's why the single market has rules, and slowly but surely is making everyone follow them.
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The past is the past. I think that this year the Italian government has been careful to play by the book. I've haven't seen MOL complaining. I think that he has enough muscle to ensure that even Germany does follow the rules also. That's why the single market has rules, and slowly but surely is making everyone follow them.
That would be why the French continued to ban UK beef imports after the EU had lifted the ban and whilst the French had mad cows all along!
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It takes a long time to change a culture. Our Imperial past has given us a tradition of assuming that everything new from abroad must be the greatest; other countries have cherished their local production even when it was undeserving.
