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...Willie Walsh probably meant to deliver an upbeat message to aviation executives in Doha this week for the annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association....
...“Douglas loves his gimmicks, but he’s part of the problem not part of the solution,” Willie Rennie, Scottish Lib Dem leader told the BBC on Sunday....
...Burns got his revenge by immortalising one sanctimonious elder in the poem “Holy Willie’s Prayer”. Coles muses on the ironies of posthumous fame by the gravestone of the real “Holy Willie”....
...His allusions to the brilliant and reckless Pacific theatre commander Douglas MacArthur are uniformly positive....
...Slideshow photographs: Noah Kalina, Ethan Welty, Brice Portolano, Sebastian Heise, Maria Polyakova, Jenn and Willie Witte,...
...The book strikingly records that Sir William “Willie” Purves, one of the most formidable HSBC chairmen, was not even in the bank’s 25 top money earners when he retired in 1998....
...Grace McCloud, sitting in the garden of her council house in Possilpark, listened patiently as Willie Bain asked for her vote....
...Both will continue to report to Willie Walsh, who is group chief executive....
...Iberia reported an operating loss of €263m in the six months to June 30 and Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, is set to reveal a far-reaching restructuring of the airline on Friday that unions fear could...
...“In ‘Willie’s Lady’, Child Ballad No 6,” Mitchell explains, “there’s a line like, ‘Who was it that killed the master kid that slept under thy lady’s bed?’...
...Willie Walsh, chief executive, also acknowledged that the group was suffering from a stock overhang created by Spain’s partial renationalisation of Bankia, the deeply troubled Madrid bank and IAG’s largest...
...Douglas McNeill, analyst at Charles Stanley, said IAG’s inaugural year had been a “good one, with a substantial increase in earnings”....
...Douglas McNeill, analyst at Charles Stanley Securities, said: “It’s a tale of two cities....
...“I think there is no question that it is a victory for British Airways but it comes at a cost,” said Douglas McNeill, at Charles Stanley Securities....
...“They did need to secure closure,” said Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Charles Stanley Securities in London. “It makes good commercial sense to eliminate the threat of further disruption.”...
...These days it is better known as Cooya Beach, just north of the booming Reef resort of Port Douglas....
...As Willie Walsh, chief executive, said: “To get the business back into profitability has been a very hard job and I think everyone in BA deserves credit”....
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...But with Willie Walsh, chief executive, pledging to “hold out for as long as it takes”, the airline appears intent on permanently altering the balance of power with the union....
...Willie Walsh has never been one to shun the limelight....
...“The figures from the last strike action suggest as many as a quarter of cabin crew may have voted to strike but turned up to work nevertheless,” said Douglas McNeill, transport analyst at Charles Stanley...
...“Willie Walsh has to make a lot of unpopular and difficult strategic changes because, if he doesn’t, BA will have no future....
...The High Court’s decision to block a 12-day strike planned by British Airways’ cabin crew will have bought elation and relief to the airline and Willie Walsh, its combative chief....
...BA declined to say if Willie Walsh, the airline’s chief executive, would attend the meetings....
...“BA has a habit of entering each new year with several big challenges to handle, and this year is no different,” says Douglas McNeill, transport analyst with Astaire Securities....
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