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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 11:05 am
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Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger
As I understand it, if BA is not majority owned by a UK corporation, they lose a lot of the benefits they receive as a UK corporation, including things like slots at LHR.

So EK taking them over would probably eliminate any of the reasons EK would want BA in the first place.
There's a far better discussion of this on the BA board, including ways EK could work along with these rules...
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