Hints and tips:
...One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...As long as Willie Walsh was at the helm, Al Baker saw no need for board representation. When Walsh stepped down, Qatar demanded two seats. At Airbus too, there has been a change of guard....
...Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, said in Doha this week that it would be “very challenging”....
...The stake increase comes a month before Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, is due to step down from the company and be replaced by Iberia’s chief executive Luis Gallego....
...He randomly divided subjects into two groups: “farmers” who would profit from a rising price, and “bakers” who would profit from a falling one....
...Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, which owns British Airways, said recently: “I don’t see it as an industry issue, I see it as a societal issue.”...
...Willie Walsh, IAG’s chief executive, said he was “delighted” to announce the joint business agreement....
...John Strickland, an aviation consultant, said Mr Al Baker had talked for some time about his desire to agree a deal with BA....
...Akbar Al-Baker, Qatar chief executive, revealed the increased stake in a discussion with reporters at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai....
...In a statement, Akbar Al-Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, said: “We have been very happy with our investment in IAG, from a financial, commercial and strategic perspective....
...Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has a good relationship with IAG’s chief Willie Walsh. Indeed, the two airlines already have a code-sharing agreement under which they share flights....
...Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive, is a vocal proponent of partnership with the Gulf carriers and has forged a close working relationship with Akbar Al Baker, his counterpart at Qatar Airways....
...IAG and Qatar Airways declined to comment when asked if there was a conflict of interest for Qatar and Mr Al Baker....
...Qatar’s choice of Oneworld seems partly based on the strong working relationship between Mr Al Baker and Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, parent of British Airways....
...Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, said this month his airline was not interested in the Bankia stake....
...As Willie Sutton famously replied when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Could it happen here? You bet....
...Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ chief executive, said last November that the company was interested in buying minority stakes in more airlines following the Cargolux deal....
...Norman Baker, the Lib Dem transport minister, insisted the government would “stick” to its pledge of not expanding Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted....
...The company is adept at catching the essentials of non-classical choreographers’ work: Twyla Tharp’s jaunty Baker’s Dozen to Willie “The Lion” Smith’s jazz piano works became instantly popular when introduced...
...“Art ± 1000”, November 17-24, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur....
...Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of the great jazz and stride pianists, had a unique way of playing and composing that is matched in Twyla Tharp’s Baker’s Dozen, a cream puff of a work first seen in 1979....
...‘Tawatchai Puntusawasdi: The Beauty of Distance’, until October 20, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: +603 22-842 348; www.vwfa.net...
...So what’s the one thing Richard Baker will change at Boots this year? Well, not the declining trend in profits, that would be overly ambitious....
...Now that Blue Note has Al Green and Van Morrison and Anita Baker, whose [2004] album just sold about 750,000 copies, the pressure's on us as if we were a pop label....
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