25 Quotes by Chris Avery

BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer,

BA is entering what we feel will be a tense six months for industrial relations as the pension fund deficit and the three-year wage deal come up for negotiation with the unions.

The big airline fights back with everything it possibly can,

That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,

They will certainly have a role in the future of aviation, there is no doubt about it. People will prefer to fly non-stop if it is available,

So, arguably, if KLM and BA were to do something together, you could flow the transfer traffic over Amsterdam and just send the profitable traffic that wants to go to London to Heathrow.

But we are reaching the limits. These markets are at the very margin of aviation. (Most) airlines still fly in the eight to 12-hour sector. This is still where the biggest volume (in traffic) is.