Originally Posted by
colmc
What "behaviour"? It wasn't kicked out of a club, it withdrew and maintained the key relationships it needed (BA mostly, but also QF, CX and AA for a while). It's not like they jilted someone at the alter.
It refused to pay the necessary fees to enable connectivity between it and JL. Also it's model was deemed to be too much on the low cost side of the equation (the irony is that BA seems to be following in it's path these days!).
Don't forget the EI has a fair portion of it's shares owned by the dreaded O'Leary camp over at FR so I don't see FR willingly handing over those shares to BA.