Coronavirus

[Oracle]

And there was I thinking you were a thinking man , not a consumer of any lefty tosh you come upon. Ah well.

Now study actual history, the two situations could not be more different.

BA waged a continuous campaign of dirty tricks used against virgin to undermine their failing airline, eg stealing hacked information from their customer database to switch sell customers, even claiming some virgin flights were cancelled. Branson had every right to be angry.
He was also libelled personally years before by lord king. Memories die hard.


Also funding BA would have distorted competition, and Branson was right to contest it.
Branson has had to fight too much of this, eg Competing in the US is inherently unfair because of trying to compete with chapter 11 airlines who don’t pay their bills,

Now is completely different.
Virgin has a problem because governments shut it down.
Government created the problem. Government must solve it.

I tend to defer to the expert advise of Mr Branson.

In 2009 when British Airways faced some issues having posted a £400m loss, he urged the Government not to offer them a bailout, saying the airline was not worth much anymore and that Virgin and others were standing by to take over their routes, slots and recruit their staff.