12 JULY 1997, Page 25

Flight of fancy

ROBERT Ayling, British Airways' embat- tled chief executive, has lost two City cus- tomers. At Garsington, they were dis- cussing Jonathan Aitken's libel suit and the fatal evidence from BA's records: 'It's a bit rough if a chap can't play an away match in Paris without having the tickets used in evi- dence against him.' Quite so. Now Air France understands these things.'