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BA and Qantas face pensions shadow
William Hutchings and Liam Vaughan
03 Dec 2008
03 Dec 2008
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09 January 2009
03:44 GMT
Merger negotiations between UK airline British Airways and Australian rival Qantas are threatened to be overshadowed by the companies' pensions liabilities, which dwarf their combined market capitalisations by a factor of almost five.
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