Originally Posted by
HIDDY
Very nice words from uk1 indeed but I am afraid the days of flag waving and feeling of pride for British Airways stopped well before T 5 was even thought about..
I disagree. Certainly
uk1's words struck a major chord with me. Emotion plays a major part in consumer choice (otherwise branding consuiltants would be out of job). I consider myself, in most things, a reasonably unemotional consumer. But I know only too well that when I see that tailfin, the one that BA so idiotically wanted to ditch, in some corner of a foreign airport it does give me a slight kick in the throat and leap in the heart. The Flag is not any flag. BA is not just another airline. This Kingdom is not just any country. And when BA diminishes itself, we are, by some means difficult to enunciate, all diminished.
Originally Posted by
HIDDY
It's a tough business running an airline these days and there is little room for sentiment.Similarly, our attitude to our railways changed when the tax payer was freed from propping that up as well.
And on a rather less elevated note may I remind you that regardless of the romance of steam the railways have gobbled up more subsidy since privatisation than before it
