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...Pope's press secretary, Father Federico Lombardi, emphasized that this trip is meant to be more a papal pilgrimage than a pastoral visit, with the stated purpose to celebrate the 850th anniversary on Saturday of the shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary. "My voyage is not political," the pontiff told reporters just before takeoff. "I want to join in with other faithful in this act of unity that such a journey brings." Nevertheless, Austrian Catholics will be looking to their pontiff for words of encouragement as the nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal...
...achievement to be celebrated in picture and song. There is no greater go-to movie scene today than the one in which people throw inhibition to the wind and perform: the climactic Super Freak dance in Little Miss Sunshine, the Age of Aquarius singalong in The 40 Year-Old Virgin...
...Last month, a report by the Association of European Airlines placed the firm near the bottom of the region's carriers for punctuality. In a ranking of lost luggage, BA performed worse than any other airline that provided data, losing 75% more bags than Air France or Lufthansa (archrival Virgin Atlantic did not participate). Even worse, Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the U.S. Department of Justice fined BA more than $500 million in August after determining that it had colluded with rivals to fix prices. Two former BA execs, commercial director Martin George and communications chief Iain...
...price-fixing penalties wiped at least some of the gloss off all that. According to the OFT, scheming with rival Virgin over the level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control of BA. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the authority's investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of it, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with...
...years, BA is perhaps yet to face its biggest test of the Walsh era. The airline's shares have plunged by almost a third since February, owing partly to worries that liberalization of the transatlantic market next year will cut into its profits. Under current rules, only BA, Virgin and the U.S. carriers American Airlines and United Airlines can fly to and from the U.S. via Heathrow. For BA, that restricted access has been a gold mine. With the industry in meltdown in the wake of 9/11, BA "rightly used the cartel of Heathrow to the U.S. to generate...