BA boss shocked to find out that third Heathrow runway will raze his HQ
The boss of Heathrows biggest customer, British Airways, only discovered that building the airports planned third runway would require the demolition of his airlines head office after looking at a map.
Willie Walsh, the chief executive of BAs parent company IAG, claimed that despite the group being responsible for about half of all flights at the London hub, he received no formal warning of the proposed demolition.
He said: We were never actually informed or advised by Heathrow that they intended to knock down our headquarters.
Both IAG and British Airways are based at Waterside in Harmondsworth, which opened in 1998 at a cost of £200m and sits in a 115-hectare (280-acre) manmade park. Walsh said the HQ was a fantastic environmental achievement on our part.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/nov/22/ba-boss-shocked-to-find-out-that-third-heathrow-runway-will-raze-his-hq
Ha-ha. Poetic justice.