Pursuits
Branson Seeks Halt to BA ‘Salami Slicing’ of Lufthansa’s BMI
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Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., called on regulators to vet the purchase of operating slots at London’s Heathrow airport by chief rival British Airways from Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
Virgin will this week write to the U.K. Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission after BA, already the No. 1 airline at capacity-constrained Heathrow, said Sept. 23 it would buy six daily takeoff and landing slots from Lufthansa-unit BMI.