[FormerlyDoS]

transtraxman – 31/12/2013 19:12 GM

Possibly because he is British and very prosperous? 😉

[bacrew1]

FDOS G-BNLG is already flying and has been for sometime now.

[FormerlyDoS]

Thanks for that, bacrew1. So it seems there is no quick and easy path from the desert?

[Hippocampus]

A great end to the year for IAG with the share price closing at above 400p.

IAG has enormous potential in 2014.

British Airways continues to reap the rewards of its restructuring with all three of its London airport bases now expanding.

Vueling continues its rapacious expansion across Europe.

IAG has defied all of its critics in proving it can turn around Iberia and has been quietly improving the performance of the Madrid hub with significant improvements in punctuality and reduced minimum connection times. IAG has barely begun the scratch the surface in making Madrid one of Europe’s premier hubs.

Add to that the prospect of 1 or 2 airlines joining IAG in the coming years, it has plainly defied all of its critics and sceptics.

[FormerlyDoS]

Do you get your news feed from the same source as Sergeant Major?

You are talking about quite a small alliance, who fly less passengers than Ryanair and easyJet (unaligned airlines), never mind Lufthansa Group.

We will see how good the management is in a few years, but for the moment, the jury is out. One swallow does not a summer make, IAG lost nearly a billion euros in 2012.

[ImissConcorde]

Yawn!

[FormerlyDoS]

ImissConcorde

Which fact do you disagree with?

IAG flies less passengers than Lufthansa Group

IAG flies less passengers than easyJet

IAG flies less passengers than Ryanair

IAG lost nearly $1bn in 2012

Please, do tell.

[SergeantMajor]

Fantastic €770m profit for IAG; Willie’s earned every penny of his £5m paypacket this year.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4a46f77e-a53c-11e3-a7b4-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk

Good to see the Board agrees:

“Baroness Kingsmill, the chair of the IAG remuneration committee, said: “Once again, the chief executive of IAG has continued to lead by example in proposing restraint in executive packages.””

[esselle]

Perhaps he will be able to find himself a decent tailor?

[SergeantMajor]

On that point, I concur with you, esselle!

[esselle]

This must be a first!!

Poole is my preferance.

Have a good weekend.

[DavidGordon10]

I commend the blog comments on the Guardian website below the article to which SM kindly provides the link.

[ArthurDimlock]

Well done Willie Walsh.

I wonder what the other 50,000 people at IAG were doing last year?

[TominScotland]

Colleagues, just bumping this back up the list ahead of the spam

[rjhcambs]

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