King apologises to Virgin
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"I would like again to apologise and to reiterate goodwill towards Richard Branson," said BA chairman Lord King. King said he also wanted to apologise "to all our people, our shareholders and our customers".
BA said it was setting up a committee of its board to oversee introduction of a code of conduct to ensure activities such as the "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin did not happen again.
Last week Branson won damages of 610,000 pounds ($929,200), plus court costs estimated variously at between two and three million pounds ($3-4.5 million), and an apology from BA in settlement of his libel case over his allegations that BA had conducted a "dirty tricks" campaign.
In the libel settlement BA said that there had been a number of "regrettable" incidents involving its employees which gave Virgin reasonable grounds for concern.
A BA statement said: "The board accepts that Mr Branson did have reasonable grounds for concern and it was therefore wrong to suggest otherwise."
"...the regrettable conduct revealed by the investigation was confined to a relatively small number of unconnected incidents involving a very small number of employees."
