One day, perhaps soon than we think, owning billions of pounds' worth of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland may not seem like the questionable investment it does at the moment... more
EasyJet shares take to the skies as the low-cost airline says this year's profits could be as much £50 million better than the City has been expecting... more
EasyJet adds its voice to aviation industry pleas for the Government to cancel the planned rise in air passenger duty, on the last day of consultation into the review.... more
There are fears of major job losses at The Guardian amid speculation that it could axe its daily specialist print supplements covering subjects such as media and education... more
Sky-high fuel bills will force cash-strapped airlines to drop routes - and easyJet is ready to swoop in and pick them up, chief executive Carolyn McCall has said... more
George Osborne's claim that the Budget "put fuel into the tank of the British economy" is coming back to haunt the Chancellor - and everyone else for that matter - as critics use it against him... more
EasyJet sets out the details of its ambitious plans to expand into the corporate travel market, hiring a London salesforce in a bid to win big City clients like Goldman Sachs to its budget formula... more
There was a period in the mid-Nineties when I used to cover Labour Party conferences. One of the delights was going along to the National Union of Mineworkers' rally and hearing the triumvirate of Dennis Skinner, Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill speak... more
The new chief of easyJet wins a ringing endorsement from the low-cost airline's founder as she announced it will start paying dividends and drive for more business passengers... more
EasyJet admits it has had to hire extra crew and aircraft to help it cope with summer demand and costly delays caused by air traffic control strikes across Europe... more
BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg’s gaffe, that BP does care deeply about the “small people”, has been likened to New York hotelier Leona Helmsley... more
Compare and contrast: Willie Walsh, chief of British Airways, soon to be a direct rival of Carolyn McCall’s, waived his £334,000 bonus. McCall, boss of the Left-leaning Guardian, didn't... more
Accountant KPMG says there are "a number of material uncertainties which may cast doubt on the ability of Ballymore Properties Holdings to continue as a going concern"... more
Lord Myners’ proposal to force banks to reveal the pay of their executives outside the board is an interesting one. And deeply flawed. While we’re in “kick a banker” season at the moment we could just as easily move on to other industries ... more
The bankers have been given quite a kicking for their role in the financial crisis this week. But something else became all too clear in Westminster: almost no one on the Treasury Select Committee has a clue what they are doing. ... more
While the headlines about Citigroup's latest round of bloodletting say 52,000 jobs are being axed, the US bank won't make even half that number redundant... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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