Susie

Hardly comparable BA / Iberia to the BAA, Iberea and BA are each one of 120 airlines that use Heathrow and on most American routes there is the choice of 10 or so carriers, there is only one BAA ( as in Monopoly or Zero Competition), if airlines dont like the terms it seems to be tough luck

Peter, Aldershot, UK

Whats going on here ? BA has been fixing prices and putting a fuel surcharge on tickets well before the current oil price rise. So where has all that money gone ? As it is BA is not the cheapest. Perhaps what is needed is a change in management and attitude in this lumbering behemoth of an airline

John Taylor, London,

So £2 billion cash reserves is not even a year's fuel bill let alone running costs. Run away.

bob, london,

Willie blames everything except himself.

BA gambled - and, entirely predictably, lost - on the Boeing 787 being delivered on time, so has an unmodernised fleet of airliners, that are guzzling expensive fuel. Bum management by a whiz-kid executive, like so much else thar afflicts our flag-carrie

Noel Falconer MEcon, COUIZA, France

The combined airline would be Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, carrying over 60 million people a year and employing 64,000. I wonder will BA be calling for an inquiry by the OFT as it did when it called for the break of of BAA dominance in the market. Will there be a submission to the OFT

susie, London, UK

August 2006...BRITISH AIRWAYS yesterday added to the pressure for BAA to be broken up by urging separate ownership of Heathrow and Stansted and calling for the airports market to be referred to the Competition Commission. BA is the biggest of several airlines to call for BAA to be overhauled.

susie, L:ondon, UK

"It will be several months before talks are finalised but we are confident of securing regulatory approval," said Mr Walsh. Really I wonder will other airlines vigorously appose this merger, will BA appose it lol! as it would be too dominant in the market, the accusation that BA fired at BAA

susie, London, UK