BA Brinksmanship

Here’s the latest from me about how British Airways CEO Willie Walsh seems to have played a game of brinksmanship with the British government and won the reopening of UK airspace. But if Walsh is the hero of this debacle, there’s also a villain and that’s looking to be Civil Aviation Authority Chief Executive Andrew Haines or the “Many Who Shut the Skies,” as the London Evening Standard called him yesterday in a front page banner headline.