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IAG swoops for bmi with a bargain basement deal
By ROB DAVIES
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British Airways owner IAG has cemented its dominance of Heathrow with a bargain basement deal for bmi, brushing off fierce objections from rival bidder Virgin Atlantic.
IAG will pay Lufthans a £172.5million for the airline, just two years after the German carrier was forced to pay £223million for founder Sir Michael Bishop’s 51 per cent stake when he exercised an option to sell.
The price-tag will be reduced even further if Lufthansa is unable to sell bmi regional and bmibaby, the loss -making airline’s low-cost division, before the acquisition is sealed.

Cut-price deal: The agreement takes IAG's share of landing slots at Heathrow from 45 per cent to 53 per cent
Lufthansa has agreed to take on bmi’s £180million pension deficit as part of the agreement.
IAG boss Willie Walsh said it had taken ‘difficult negotiations’ to reach a deal that takes the carrier’s share of landing slots at Heathrow from 45 per cent to 53 per cent.

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He said IAG would use the slots to add more long-haul routes to the ‘economic powerhouses’ of Asia, citing China, Vietnam and Indonesia as target destinations.
He said restructuring bmi, which lost £153million in 2010, would inevitably lead to job losses but insisted that new routes would ultimately compensate in part.
‘Obviously bmi failed and if it had been shut down the slots would have been sold to airlines around the world and the jobs. . .would have been exported to foreign airlines,’ he said.
Walsh added that IAG (up 4.8p to 149.9p) had a ‘good case’ to get the deal past European competition authorities, pointing out that the sale of bmi regional and bmibaby would help satisfy antitrust concerns.
City analysts said approval was by no means a ‘foregone conclusion’ but was unlikely to prove a major obstacle.
Walsh, famous for his pugnacious style when battling unions at British Airways, hit back at allegations by Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson that the deal ‘screws the travelling public’.
‘To suggest that this is somehow bad for competition is a nonsense,’ he said.
‘Everybody know his [Branson’s] sole concern is him. We’re not going to be distracted.’ He suggested the entrepreneur was simply looking for ‘public sympathy’.
Virgin lodged a lower bid for bmi than IAG, believing uncertainty over receiving competition clearance would persuade the German airline to part with its subsidiary for less.
Lufthansa is now seeking buyers for bmi regional and bmibaby to ensure the value of the deal – due to complete early next year – is not cut.
Walsh said he believed the airline would have no trouble selling the regional business, but pi tched the chances of a swift bmibaby sale as no better than ‘50/50’.

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Virgin Media softened the impact of slightly disappointing half-year results with news of a larger than expected share buy-back programme.
Having completed £325m of buy-backs in the last year, the TV and telecoms provider will buy back a further £625m of shares over the next 18 months, which it said was an expression of confidence in its ability to keep generating huge cash flows. Free cash flow climbed 43.8 per cent over the half year, as the company's 4.8m cable customers spent more on services.
The number of cable customers slipped by 36,000 in the second quarter, but management said most cancellations were lower value single or double-play customers, and that the proportion of triple-play subscribers had continued to increase, driving average revenue per user up 3.2 per cent to £47.35.
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