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		<title>Iberia and British Airways&#8217; merger (two losers together don&#8217;t make a winner)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally they had to do it. Slumping for too long with revenues going down the drain finally made both companies not so choosy about each other, specially when the rest of the European partners are already married and the half-blood-European-Americans are not allowed. They finally had to sit together in the only remaining chair. Borrowed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=557&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening day (the commissioning of Barcelona&#8217;s Airport Terminal 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable we&#8217;re already here. After six years of dedicating an important part of my professional life to Barcelona&#8217;s Airport, today Terminal 1 is officially born. We&#8217;ll listen to the politicians&#8217; speeches on how they made this possible. Maybe they did, but we worked all the way through. And this feeling, this pride, this sense of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=527&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The holidays are over (still here after a busy summer)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year is over, and I&#8217;m left cold sober. That&#8217;s how a song from Queen begins. In my case it has been an interesting but feverish year. I&#8217;ve done so many things that I can&#8217;t recall them all. My first year in the Henley MBA is over. I have passed all three exams and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=401&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with the Terminal 5 syndrome</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/29/living-with-the-terminal-5-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the average reader of this blog knows, and wordpress knows such individuals exist to my amazement (THANK-YOU), I do several things in my job, one of them is the integration of the baggagge system in the Terminal South (or Terminal D) in Barcelona&#8217;s airport. Well, it used to be one of them&#8230; but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=361&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Terminal 5 (Interviewed for the Times)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/15/learning-from-terminal-5-interviewed-for-the-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed by Widget Finn for the Times, and she wrote the following article: The disastrous debut of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was a nightmare experience for all involved, but for Gabriel Mesquida it has proved a valuable live case study for his MBA dissertation. Mesquida is a programme manager for Aena, the Spanish equivalent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=356&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from a high-speed train (inbetween Madrid and Barcelona)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/04/02/reflections-from-a-high-speed-train-inbetween-madrid-and-barcelona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often travel the route Barcelona Madrid (and backwards) for the day. By plane it&#8217;s rather tiresome and expensive: with an open fare you end up paying around 400€ for a 630 km flight (+ 630 km back). Barcelona &#8211; Madrid is the world&#8217;s busiest route with 971 operations per week. The second one is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=339&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming Heathrow (and splicing it up)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2007/08/28/blaming-heathrow-and-splicing-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s increasingly easier for alienated bare-footed queuing passengers to blame Heathrow (BAA) for the illnesses of the deficient British airport system. Even easier to blame there is the Spanish owner: Ferrovial. But a systemic look at the problem reveals that the responsibility is wide spread, and it may not be that easy. The airport sector [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=231&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airlines still dancing at the Spanish ball (Iberia and Spanair seeking mates)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/19/airlines-still-dancing-at-the-spanish-ball-iberia-and-spanair-seeking-mates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subtle movements show greater undercurrents in the Spanish Airline&#8217;s ball. You&#8217;ll see several previous posts about this in Scarcityrent.com (Airline movements in Europe: British Airways and Iberia on hold, Airlines corporate hunt: British Airways and TPG finally join forces to buy Iberia, Iberia and its brides… where’s the value?) But let&#8217;s review the latest movements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=210&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airline movements in Europe: British Airways and Iberia on hold (and a remote highway too)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2007/06/21/airline-movements-in-europe-british-airways-and-iberia-on-hold-and-a-remote-highway-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny that the Wall Street Journal published this week an article about the consolidation of the European airline industry. I&#8217;ve written about Iberia and it&#8217;s many contenders in two previous posts: Airlines corporate hunt: British Airways and TPG finally join forces to buy Iberia and Iberia and its brides… where’s the value? What has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=152&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airlines corporate hunt: British Airways and TPG finally join forces to buy Iberia</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2007/05/22/airlines-corporate-hunt-british-airways-and-tpg-finally-join-forces-to-buy-iberia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smart move from British Airways. The hunt has resumed and two hunters have made an alliance: Texas Pacific Group and British Airways will go together. That&#8217;s a good idea because private equity can cooperate easily with the British airline&#8217;s knowledge support. And there are synergies: Iberia has what BA lacks: a good connection with America, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=85&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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