British Airways

We face a fight for survival.”
British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh last week.

(Qantas) faces many obstacles in surviving.”
Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon in July 2003.

For an industry that depends on its ability to instill confidence in travelers, airlines sure spend a lot of time scaring their workers and shareholders witless.

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  • Ford says:

    11:49am | 23/06/09

    Puspa - the problem is that the airlines make their profits on business travel.  And business travellers are never going to start flying bogan class on Air Asia.  There will always be room for full service airlines.  I forsee a future of mass consolidations between the major airlines in the… Read more »

  • Puspa says:

    10:55am | 23/06/09

    Clive is correct in relation to the airlines operating the old full service model.i suspect that Thai,Malaysian Philippines Garuda etc in this region will go bankrupt or end up on permanent government life support.Meanwhile Air Asia Lion etc go from strength to strength.At last ordinary people are getting what they… Read more »

 

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