British Airways are likely to deliver record profits this year, in the first nine months of the financial year they have reported a 35% rise in earnings. This is despite rising fuel costs and a fall in economy class bookings during January. BA has recently announced a business class only service that will fly from London’s city airport to New York. They have also not ruled out making a take over bid for BMI which would give them control of 50% of Heathrow’s slots.