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hunterboy 8th Jul 2019 09:37

183M here and a couple hundred Mill with the future strike,and pretty soon we are talking real money.

Auxtank 8th Jul 2019 09:43

They'll have to drop a couple of MAXs' from the order they've recently put in to Boeing.

Bergerie1 8th Jul 2019 10:40

I think you will find it was IAG and not BA that ordered all those MAXs.

pilotmike 8th Jul 2019 11:55


Originally Posted by Bergerie1 (Post 10512791)
I think you will find it was IAG and not BA that ordered all those MAXs.

I think you'll find that neither company ordered any MAX aircraft. A LOI is not an order.

Sunfish 8th Jul 2019 12:06

They were warned.

Bergerie1 8th Jul 2019 12:15

pilotmike, you are indeed right!!!

Auxtank 8th Jul 2019 14:46


Originally Posted by Bergerie1 (Post 10512791)
I think you will find it was IAG and not BA that ordered all those MAXs.

And I think you'll find (LOI or otherwise) BA and IAG are the same bl**dy thing.

wiggy 8th Jul 2019 15:19


Originally Posted by Auxtank (Post 10512957)
And I think you'll find (LOI or otherwise) BA and IAG are the same bl**dy thing.

..and I think you'll find in turn that statement will come as something of a surprise to many working at BA, Vueling, Iberia....

Auxtank 8th Jul 2019 16:49


Originally Posted by wiggy (Post 10512981)
..and I think you'll find in turn that statement will come as something of a surprise to many working at BA, Vueling, Iberia....

From Wikipedia.
I've highlighted the pertinent sentence in bold for you.

International Consolidated Airlines Group, S.A., often shortened to IAG, is an Anglo-Spanish multinational airline holding company with its registered office in Madrid, Spain and its operational headquarters in London, UK. It was formed in January 2011 after a merger agreement between British Airways and Iberia, the flag carrier airlines of the United Kingdom and Spain respectively. As British Airways was the larger company, those holding shares in British Airways at the time of the merger were given 55% of the shares in the new, merged company. British Airways and Iberia ceased to be independent companies and instead became 100% owned subsidiaries of IAG.

DaveReidUK 8th Jul 2019 17:14

I admire your nerve, arguing with people who actually work for the company in question. :O


Originally Posted by Auxtank (Post 10513031)
British Airways and Iberia ceased to be independent companies and instead became 100% owned subsidiaries of IAG.

Er, yes, but that doesn't mean that BA=IAG any more than it means IB=IAG (by that logic, BA=IB).


Auxtank 8th Jul 2019 17:24

Oh Gawd - looks who's wading in now.

The hair has been sufficiently split.

I withdraw.

DaveReidUK 8th Jul 2019 22:16


Originally Posted by Auxtank (Post 10513066)
Oh Gawd - looks who's wading in now.

The hair has been sufficiently split.

Nice try, but I don't accept any responsibility for a poster's inability to understand how airline groupings work. :O

568 9th Jul 2019 03:41


Originally Posted by barry lloyd (Post 10246358)
As luck would have it, I had booked a ticket with BA at just the wrong moment. Result? The bank has cancelled my card (but didn't bother to tell me), and is re-issuing. From BA? An apologetic email or even a snail mail letter (since I am a BA loyalty card holder)? Nothing, other than the 'very sorry' blanket apology.

As has been pointed out earlier, BA is merely an arm of IAG these days, and it shows. In the same way as many of our railway companies are now foreign-owned and offering a less than satisfactory service, but nevertheless raking in lots of Sterling.

That "less than satisfactory service" could be because of the privatization of the railways from a former government!

PerPurumTonantes 9th Jul 2019 06:31


Originally Posted by 568 (Post 10513431)
That "less than satisfactory service" could be because of the privatization of the railways from a former government!

Thread derailed :ok:


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