The game turned on an incident just after the break as Chelsea won a penalty when England goalkeeper Joe Hart brought down Demba Ba as he attempted to go round him.
"With fuel prices where they are, we are clearly flying into very significant headwinds, " he quipped to The Associated Press on Tuesday, adding that he believes BA could increase its operating margin--he just didn't know exactly when.
Samson's next big match will be for the Barbarians against Bedford on 7 April, 12 months after he helped the Ba Bas defeat Edinburgh at Raeburn Place, and says he is relishing the prospect.
Although Mr Fischer told the BBC News website he was disappointed BA limited its admission of sex discrimination to his case, he said his case would help any other men who faced a similar predicament.
He earned a BA in Engineering Sciences and Economics from Dartmouth and a Harvard MBA. He did leveraged buyouts of paper and cardboard companies for Morgan Stanley (MS).
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He ordered 26 BA planes at different long-haul destinations to be flown to their London bases, Heathrow and Gatwick.
Chance is British and attended the University of London where he earned a BA in Archaeology and Art from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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The defeat dropped West Ham back into the relegation zone and Hammers boss Avram Grant believed Vidic should have been sent off for a perceived professional foul on Demba Ba rather than the yellow card he received when the visitors were trailing 2-0.
Ba looked set to leave Germany after he refused to travel with Hoffenheim to their winter training camp in Spain.
He had previously campaigned against BA's proposed merger with American Airlines.
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Mr Walsh said terms and conditions for the new venture would be different from those in BA's main operation, but said he was confident concerns could be assuaged.
Ba was due to join Stoke earlier this month but he failed a medical, but Grant said his signing was not a gamble.
It means that Newcastle must sell Ba if another team makes that offer and if he agrees to the sale.
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He is both a savvy media operator, and a shrewd negotiator - two attributes his supporters say he is using to good effect in the BA dispute.
That led to a nervous finish for City, but Ba wasted his team's best chance to equalize when he fired straight at goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon from close range minutes later.
He emigrated to Israel at the age of 20 under the Law of Return, where he served in the military and gained a BA in social sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He graduated from Lehigh University in 1976 with both BA and MBA degrees.
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He also called on Lord Adonis to publicly pressure BA to "put back on the table" the settlement offer it made last week.
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It had, as I said, it had dissolved itself and the decision was made in essence to simply confirm the dissolution of the Army as part of the overall effort of de-Ba'athification, which Ambassador Bremer made as his theme when he arrived in Baghdad.
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Mr Fischer said he was being treated differently to female passengers and therefore BA was breaking the law.
He then spent 12 months studying the Bard for his BA in English Literature, devouring Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and Hamlet.
He is a graduate of Georgia State University and has a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Affairs and a Minor in French.
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Initially he pursued a literary rather than a financial path: a BA in English followed by an MA in American Literature from the University of North Carolina.
He graduated from the University of East Anglia (UEA) with a BA in Philosophy and Politics, and gained an MA in International Politics from the University of Southampton.
By the end of April, he will have replaced the last of his Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) 737s with Airbus 318s and 319s, which have between 110 and 130 seats, thereby reducing spare parts and the need for separately trained flight crews.
He was threatened with legal action by the club's general manager, although Ba suggested in a statement on his own website that Hoffenheim had gone back on a promise to let him move to England, amid reported interest from West Ham United.
He was clean-shaven, balding with short hair, and was wearing a high visibility BA jacket.
Ba, making his first West Ham start following his move from Bundesliga side Hoffenheim, got the goal when he latched on to Noble's ball into the danger area and, under pressure from Paul Scharner, Ba chested the ball down and turned it in from close-range.
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