Word: ba
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...airline has plans to start a low-cost carrier in 2001 that will compete directly with the five domestic firms still aloft. And because Air Canada is the only international carrier with regularly scheduled flights across Canada, it has played hardball with giants like British Airways, hiking the price BA paid Canadian Airlines to have its passengers flown to its destinations of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver from smaller Canadian cities...
...Bombay, 940 people sit at terminals in a huge, air-conditioned hall, working for World Network Services, a unit of British Airways. They perform a variety of long-distance functions--tracking cargo, processing reservations, collating sales--for BA and other carriers. Qualifications for the jobs aren't high. Anyone who knows English and can use a keyboard can apply. WNS general manager Roy Marshall says the company looked at several countries before settling on India. The main reason: so many people speak English that expansion would never be a problem...
...Veronica number called "Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus and I'm like - what...
...Ba-da-boom...
...British pilots' union said it has "very real doubts" about the necessity of the grounding given that British Airways' planes have improvements that the Air France fleet does not. According to financial analysts, the Concorde has also been a moneymaker for BA, contributing around $300 million to annual revenues and about $30 million to operating profits. Air France squeaked out an estimated $2 million in profit on $125 million in revenues last year...