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Article: BA bosses accused of price fixing ; Four senior British Airways executives have been charged with "cartel offences" by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) linked to fixing fuel surcharge prices on long-haul flights, it emerged yesterday.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Four senior British Airways executives have been charged with
"cartel offences" by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) linked to
fixing fuel surcharge prices on long-haul flights, it emerged
yesterday.
The OFT said the four, including former commercial director
Martin George, were charged with "having dishonestly agreed with
others to make or implement arrangements which directly or
indirectly fixed the price for the supply in the UK of passenger air
transport services by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways".
The other three men are BA head of sales Andrew Crawley, the
former communications head Iain Burns and former UK and Ireland
sales ...