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PREDICTIONS 2001

JANUARY
After the BA Board implement all of Bob Ayling's plans he is invited back to be Chairman.

FEBRUARY
Easyjet start service between Glasgow and Belfast Harbour using a converted Stellios Rent-a-car with waterwings

MARCH
Dutch noise protesters force Schipol Airport to move offshore to Prestwick

APRIL
GO Merges with Ryanair (FR) and moves to Paris with a new designator (FROG).

MAY
To serve both Glasgow and Edinburgh with a daily New York flight Continental opts for a smaller aircraft and borrows a couple of Beech 1900Ds from Continental Express.

JUNE
KLM opens up a Virtual Low Cost Airline it has virtually no costs, no planes and no noise.
Passengers log on to a web site and just imagine they are travelling.

JULY
Pilots at United Airlines put in new wage and conditions demand - They ask that they can take their planes home with them at night.

AUGUST
In order to further reduce agents' commissions airlines decide that all costs of air travel should be treated as a tax and become non-commissionable and only the Air Passenger Duty be liable for commission.

SEPTEMBER
The trend towards sleeper seats in economy class takes a major leap forward when R**nair develops a scheme to palletise passengers and buys 2 x 747 freighters for a new intercontinental very low cost service. R**nair's head of international development Tim Levis says with the pallets they can cram in 1,000 passengers in the hold of a freighter and they don't have to feed them.

OCTOBER
In the low-fares battle a new airline British United Super Travel (BUST) offers to pay passengers to fly with them.

NOVEMBER
Prestwick Airport sold to China as a military base.

DECEMBER
Air Traffic Control privatised. Toll barriers set up at the end of runways.

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John MacCalman
3CDigital.com