"Recliner" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:38:39 on Fri, 17 Jun
2016,
tim... remarked:

The two airlines from our side would undoubtedly be BA and Virgin.
Market closed to any others.

so what, 4 airlines flying to LHR, plus various options options via
other
airports looks like enough competition to me

Most people would disagree.

seems to be enough in the "mobile" market

It's our asset we are negotiating away.

But without agreement from both, we could lose much of the asset.

Only if we are stupid negotiators

I believe that you do this sort of thing for a living. I don't
understand
why you think we would give it away so easily

Because if you have little bargaining power you can't insist the other
side agrees with your point of view.

but we don't have little bargaining power, that is the point

We have much more as part of the EU than on our own.

Actually we don't as the aims will be whatever the EU wants, not what the UK
wants

The fact that, in this case, they may have been the same is irrelevant

tim