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, dismal figures from British Airways StrUggling to retain altitude, weighed OW a a dividend it ought to jettison, and Rob a fuel bill far over budget — but IlittAis is his year for being blamed. He was in n't s ejector seat when the button was ;:iressed, and now he has lost his Friday job own at the Dome. No doubt he should nb,ever have let himself be persuaded to dou- ble up as chairman of the New Millennium erience Company, but these high-flying Ir.ec. ounce Company, of all his chairman at British Airways, Lord Marshall — can ways find time to fit in another job, and en Ayling is not there to see them. he must have thought he could. Both his jobs proved intractable. When the Experi- ence turned sour, Jennifer Page, New Mil- lennium's chief executive, was ejected, enabling her to focus on her Friday job at Equitable Life, but the Dome went on eat- ing money on a prodigious scale, and now its paymasters have called for his head. Per- haps they believe, as I do, that one of the functions of a chairman is to take the blame. He must wonder whether this prin- ciple applies to British Airways.
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