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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Now, the real crux of the matter, and why it's not valid to compare Virgin Media with Virgin Atlantic is simple. Sky provide services to VM. It is therefore relatively easy (and legal) for Sky to make things difficult for VM. BA (AFAIK) do not provide services to Virgin Atlantic, so, therefore, had to resort to legally dubious methods to affect them.
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At the time of the BA Dirty Tricks. BA did provide a service to VS, the most critical service an airline needs, that of a reservations system. Effectivly BA provided a ring-fenced version of the BA reservations system to Virgin, if I recall hosted and managed by BA.
To walk away from a reservations system and onto a new one is very difficult as you need to migrate you current reservations over not an easy task.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...stem+migration
shows just how much trouble US airways had doing this last year.