Originally Posted by
Paralytic
but I still feel BA would have been better off saying nothing until all the details have been decided.
I suspect that BA would rather have kept quiet until November but they found out/suspected that the Avios story had been leaked and needed to get an autorative statement out!
You know the old story of a man in a pub on a Friday night "I must swear you to secrecy but I have heard that BA are going to .....". The secret lasts until the next round!