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IATA Summit 2011: BA’s Willie Walsh eyes BMI take-over
Willie Walsh, the chief executive of IAG, has expressed a renewed interest in buying Bmi, in a bid to gain the airline’s valuable slots at Heathrow. Speaking at the International Air Transport Association summit in Singapore, he said a potential deal hinged on whether current owner Lufthansa was willing to sell.
IATA 2011: Willie Walsh warns EU of new emissions trading scheme
BA and Iberia boss Willie Walsh has warned that the EU must delay plans to charge non-European airlines under the emissions trading scheme in order to avoid a trade war between the EU and the US and China. He has also called instead for a global ETS.
BA test flight proves it is “safe” to fly through ash cloud
Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, has said a British Airways test flight over the north of England and Scotland, where the ash cloud was meant to be at its densest, on Tuesday “found nothing”.
BA boss heckled by cabin crew at AGM
British Airways warned its patience with unions representing striking cabin crew had been “exhausted”, at an annual meeting that saw chief executive Willie Walsh booed and heckled by shareholders and staff.
Willie Walsh: I won’t back down from unions
British Airways boss Willie Walsh has sent a defiant message to striking cabin crew, saying he will fight “for as long as it takes” to win the bitter battle to break the union’s stranglehold on the struggling airline.