Airline talks

LAWYERS for British Airways and for Richard Branson met last week to try to reopen peace talks over the 'dirty tricks' dispute. The meeting, at BA's instigation, was held to try to revise the draft agreement on which the two companies failed to agree in March. Virgin has said, however, that it does not plan to postpone court proceedings against BA over compensation for damage done to its business by the 'dirty tricks' campaign, and the first of the writs against BA could be issued as soon as early May.