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.

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 ...

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