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Dealings with the trade unions are less clear-cut. Settling the dust-up with the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) early in the year at least averted the even bigger losses that a cabin crew walkout would have triggered. But the ugly dispute left both parties admitting that "a fresh start is needed to the relationship," BA said in a statement issued at the time. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble over pay levels were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s, years before Walsh arrived. He acknowledges: "You don't change...
...recent report found that commercial airlines are paying for 94% of the airways but using only 73% of them. "The CEO of Google has a Boeing 767 - should he be paying a fraction of what the airlines pay to use the airways?" says David Castelveter, spokesman of the Air Transport Association, the largest airline trade group...
...Then, there's the sense among many ordinary Sakhaliners that they're being cut out of the wealth being generated by the oil and natural gas on their island. The oil boom has driven up prices for everything from housing and food to transport - a five-minute taxi ride from the airport can break $20. Expat oil executives can pay without a problem, but locals struggle. "It's something crazy how high prices have gotten here," says Lisitsyn, speaking over the shouts of happy couples outside the cramped $745-a-month single room office his organization occupies upstairs from...
...governor captured 2,587 votes (18% of the total) to Romney's 4,516 (32%), and said after the results were announced that he had spent less than $150,000 on the effort. Unlike rival campaigns, the Huckabee operation rented no buses for the event, relying on supporters to transport themselves to Ames. And more remarkably, Huckabee's vote total was higher than the number of tickets his campaign had purchased. That means either some of his supporters paid the $35 cost on their own instead of - as most voters do - obtaining their tickets through the campaign, or Huckabee...
...phenomenal growth in bottled water isn't just draining our wallets--it's also putting stress on the environment. It takes oil to make the plastic in all those bottles and oil to transport the water from its source to the consumer, and that means greenhouse gases--a primary cause of global warming. The NRDC estimates that 4,000 tons of CO2 is generated each year--the equivalent of the emissions of 700 cars--by importing bottled water from Fiji, France and Italy, three of the biggest suppliers...