Ryanair’s new foils: Sarko and Carla

Ryanair, long known for its saucy and subversive ads, is in hot water over an ad featuring French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his lady love, Carla Bruni. With rumors of their engagement swirling around Paris, the ad shows Bruni musing at Ryanair’s low fares: “With Ryanair, my whole family will be able to come to [...]

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BA’s 640% oil premium

Today British Airways and Korean Air Lines entered pleas and received fines of $300 million for conspiring to fix prices–BA, to fix abnormally high “fuel surcharges” on passengers and cargo, and Korean, to agree with air cargo competitors to set abnormally high rates.
The Department of Justice is not announcing co-conspirators, but Virgin Atlantic and [...]

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