British Airways & American Airlines merger goes
invisible!
Enter: Bob Ayling? The chief executive of British Airways,
who’s arse is sweating buckets that his BA & AA merger may be left at the
departure lounge if John Major’s Tory government don’t get their finger out and
leave the T’s & C’s of the European Commission to sling a no fly zone over
Heathrow. So Ayling bags himself a few slimey politicians off the
street and swear them to secrecy with a back door deal to conspire away from
the prying eyes of the public and any other body or institution that may not
see eye to eye with their agenda.
So, does Bob’s airline have inside information that the
Tory’s are on their way out ‘four months’ before the May election? Or are they
lobbying both sides on a safe bet? Or is it that they have it on good authority
that the leader of the opposition ‘Tony Blair’ has had the old boy’s wink and is
going to win the premiership and is already chomping at the bit to sigh the
bastard no sooner he gets the keys to number 10?
Queue: Michael Heseltine
‘deputy prime minister’ and Neil Kinnock ‘European commissioner’ (and they
don’t come any slimier than these pair of runny shits).
A Labour git helping a Tory chump? Who’d of thunk it! But
it’s all in the common cause of Moollah, Folding money. £128 million ‘A DAY’
worth of cash to be exact. There is nothing more that travels the cross party
trough faster than a slight whiff of a big wedge of spending stuff! Pigs only
run in one direction when the farmer rattles the feed bucket!
The problem stems from these pesky ‘landing slots’ that
can’t be swapped, changed or given away due to ‘fair competition rules’ set out
by the European Commission. Their value is only credited as part of planning
procedure to get aircraft in and out of Heathrow. So our man Kinnock comes up
with the idea of changing the context of the landing slots and give it a
monetary value instead? So the slots become a valuable monetary asset which can
go onto BA’s balance sheet, ‘and can be sold or bought for profit’!
So if it’s a secret, there is no disclosure? If there is no
disclosure then it must be unlawful?
Source: Heseltine in secret talks with BA over US tie-up
Randeep Ramesh Transport Correspondent - The Independent
Friday 28 February 1997
Randeep Ramesh Transport Correspondent - The Independent
Friday 28 February 1997
