Stelios, like Branson, hates BA. It goes back to when former BA boss Robert Ayling invited Stelios to tea and asked if BA could invest in EasyJet.
One unflattering thing about BA is that it is loud, one of the noisiest cities on the planet, according to the World Health Organization.
Conciliation service Acas said it hoped BA and Unite would reopen talks directly, adding that its facilities were always available if needed.
The airline condemned the decision to strike, saying it showed "a callous disregard" for BA customers and staff, but added that it was already planning contingency measures to ensure as many passengers as possible fly during the strike periods.
In 2004, Swansea Institute said it was dropping its BA in surf and beach management to protect its image because people had been "poking fun at it".
"I regret the situation and I suffer from it, " Ba said on 6 January.
It seems that BA's core shareholders support him: the share price hardly moved when the strike was announced.
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Boeing (BA) announced Tuesday that it expects global air cargo traffic to triple by 2029, with 5.9% annual growth over the next twenty years.
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Soupy thick pessimism and dire news coverage are often a clarion call for contrary-minded investors, and analysts at two Swiss banks, Credit Suisse and UBS, see a buying opportunity in BA. Credit Suisse has BA as its top airline pick, telling clients that it believes shares could climb to 285 pence on the FTSE, and UBS reckons BA shares could jump to 295 pence.
This offer was withdrawn by BA on Friday after the airline said it was conditional on strike action being averted.
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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.
It is also reasonably sanguine about BA's other big problem: its enormous pension deficit.
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It means that Newcastle must sell Ba if another team makes that offer and if he agrees to the sale.
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Boeing ( BA) looks cheap, too, but it carries both defense-cutback risk and risk from its snake-bitten 787 jetliner program.
Details of that deal were not given, but Unite said BA had failed to restore the travel perks it withdrew from staff involved in the previous strikes in March.
British Airways (BA), for instance, has confirmed that it is talking with KLM about some sort of alliance with the Dutch carrier.
Industrial disputes are not the only issue bothering BA. More than 20 years after privatisation, it is still struggling with the legacy of state ownership.
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BA, the aircraft's only operators, that it could no longer provide technical support for the aircraft at anything like a commercial price.
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.
The union said there was a turnout of 71% of the cabin crew it represents, and 81% voted against BA's offer last week, which sought to resolve the dispute over pay and working conditions.
It would be almost twice that of Boeing ( BA), whose products you can fly.
BA's struggle to establish itself in Paris shows that it is hard for a competitor, even a powerful one, to achieve critical mass in a hub dominated by a rival alliance.
BA's operation has grown to 750 in two years and it is hiring 800 more workers for a new office in Pune.
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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My family were to fly to Boston on Saturday (13th) so I rang BA Friday evening to check my flight was OK, they said it was.
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The suggestion is that if BA can't compete over the short-haul routes, it should leave them entirely to the no-frills carriers, which would then absorb the extra "slots" - takeoff and landing times - for their own services.
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