Originally Posted by
WHBM
If Branson is going round pre-releasing details of any meeting with Putin without the most complete agreement with the Kremlin staff about what will be agreed and that the President actually wants this detail pre-released by somebody else, then he can kiss any prospect of progress, or even the meeting, goodbye ..... !
The Guardian report doesn't expand on the purpose of SRB's planned meeting with Putin...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...-moscow-flight
The Virgin boss Richard Branson is to fly to Moscow to lobby the Russian government to open its airports to more UK airlines after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Wednesday awarded rights to the last flight slots to Moscow to a rival airline, easyJet.
Virgin have long held ambitions to fly to Moscow and have not ruled out legal action over what they describe as a "disappointing, surprising and strange" decision by the CAA.
Branson is due to meet Vladimir Putin but talks on the airline issue will be held with other officials and politicians. He said it was time for "open skies", and that decisions on how many airlines fly between countries were best left to a market "rather than a civil servant".