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Another foreground in the long-running action amid Virgin Atlantic
and British Airways is set be opened by Sir Richard Branson's group,
which claims that it has kept the cartage that bare BA at the acme of
the Terminal 5 abortion in March.
Virgin Atlantic will broadcast its after-effects tomorrow, in
which it will affirmation the flyers it admiring from BA in the
canicule afterward the adverse aperture of BA's new terminal at
Heathrow accept backward with the group, rather than move aback to the
UK banderole carrier. As a clandestine company, Virgin is not
apprenticed by the aforementioned austere advertisement standards that
administer to listed groups, including BA.
A agent for BA argued that Virgin has "no evidence" to aback
the affirmation and that Terminal 5 now processes 65,000 cartage
anniversary day, a amount that will acceleration if the actual
long-haul flights move over from Terminal 4. The airline says the
amount is up from the 40,000 a day who acclimated the new terminal in
April.
In a bid to win aback customers, BA has afresh boarded on a
business attack agreeable cartage to appointment a website that gives
statistics apropos to the antecedent day's action at Terminal 5.
The row comes afterwards Sir Richard Branson claimed BA's
planned alliances with Spain's Iberia and American Airlines would
actualize a "monster monopoly". The BA agent said Sir Richard has been
application the aforementioned arguments for a decade, during which
time the airline industry has changed.
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