Qantas & British Airways on way to merger
Submitted by DA on Wednesday, 3 December 2008One Comment
Qantas the national carrier of Australia and British Airways the national carrier of UK are in talks of a merger.
In a statement, BA said that the merger would be through the creation of a dual-listed company, so it would be listed in London and Australia.
Chief executive Geoff Dixon, only days before stepping down from his role as CEO said it was inevitable that Qantas would merge with another major airline.
The day the flying kangaroo (QANTAS) merges with BA (Britsh Airways – or better known as “Bloody Awful”) – will be a retrograde move for QANTAS. Unless the BA mob can be compelled to lift their standards to match that of a barely adequate QANTAS I can see the day when long haul passenger will not only have to supply their own food, water and toilet paper; they’ll have to take their own cleaning materials. I have never travelled on a dirtier aircraft than the BA flight from Sydney to Bangkok. What made it worse was we booked a QANTAS flight and ended up on a BA flight because of ticket sharing (or some such rubbish).
Thankfully, we transferred to a Finair flight for the ongoing flight to europe.
Singapore Airlines will no doubt be happy to see the merger as their business will boom by virtue of their clean aircraft and first class service.
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