But BA may be required to give up landing slots at Heathrow, a price it has been unwilling to pay in the past.
The BA response (or IAG, to give the parent company its proper name) is that Lufthansa at its Frankfurt hub and Air France in Paris Charles de Gaulle are more dominant than BA will be with 53% of Heathrow's landing slots.
On BA you can be staring at the person next to you, which is quiet a difference.
His 86% contact rate is well above average and his .230 BABIP shows signs that a BA surge could be coming soon.
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.
But were the Americans to have a change of heart, and if international consolidation took flight, a combined BA and Iberia may just be strong enough to stay afloat.
For example, a passenger with a BA ticket but travelling on an American Airlines flight into the EU would not be entitled to the assistance, whereas a passenger on a BA flight with an American Airlines ticket travelling into the EU would.
The BBC's Mamadou Moussa Ba in Gao says heavy bombardment could be heard in the centre of the city on Tuesday, with a French helicopter patrolling.
"We do believe that all the environment issues linked to potential expansion at Heathrow can be overcome and that EU regulations on airports can be met, " the BA spokesman said.
It would be almost twice that of Boeing ( BA), whose products you can fly.
He ordered 26 BA planes at different long-haul destinations to be flown to their London bases, Heathrow and Gatwick.
Some parts of BA - mainly subsidiaries and franchise partners - will not be hit by the strike.
"There is no guarantee that any transaction will be forthcoming and a further announcement will be made in due course if appropriate, " BA said in a statement.
The proposal awaits the nod from BA's pension trustees and trade unions, but it will be no easy ride for many of his staff.
"BA should now contact customers as soon as possible to confirm flights will be going ahead and normality has returned to the market, " he added.
But although they have the potential to be useful marketing tools, such networks can also be a source of damaging publicity, as British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic have discovered to their cost.
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Years ago, you needed a nursing qualification and be fluent in a foreign language in order to work for BA. But now, customer service experience is low and staff only stay for a short period of time.
There will be daily flights from Heathrow to all short-haul destinations, BA said, but did not give any numbers.
BA-AA deal has been put in the freezer by regulators, it should be easier to have a straight negotiation on open skies.
David Soskin, chief executive of cheapflights.com, which directs many of its visitors to the BA Web site, says Walsh's restructuring had been inevitable and more could be expected.
But what really worries BA, and other business-oriented airlines, is that the cyclical downturn may be coinciding with a structural decline in business travel because of advances in information technology.
"We don't think it would be financially viable to build another runway at Stansted without cross-subsidy, " a BA spokesman told Reuters.
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.
But BA's Continental rivals are no longer the bloated, state-owned giants, they used to be.
"A country that can understand and take part in the arguments that we're going to have about climate change in the coming years needs to be well-educated about science, " said Cairncross, speaking to reporters at the launch of the BA festival.
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