Simon Calder: Virgin Atlantic showed British Airways how to be great

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Plane talk: A flag carrier needs a home-grown rival

Virgin Atlantic is burning through cash at a rate of several million pounds per day without any new revenue as the coronavirus pandemic closes down international aviation.

 

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Sure - that is what competition does....

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Wasn't there a time when both VirginAtlantic and BritishAirways got together, behind closed doors a ran a fare (price) fixing cartel /scam? JustAsking That certainly showed BA how to be great? Or was it the other way round? Funny how things get easily forgotten Simon.

Thought wecwere meant to be making drastic cut backs on flights? How about we invest in trains, clean boats, clean cars instead?

After his suing the NHS for 2 billion I say richardbranson no you put in your own money to keep the planes in the air

Well British Airways mustn't have been looking

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