It has been a scary week for Rod Eddington. When the chief executive of British Airways woke up in his New York hotel on Tuesday morning, he switched on CNN and saw film of one of his planes landing at Heathrow. Good, he thought, they're running a piece on the airline's decent quarterly results, announced on Monday before he flew to a board meeting of News Corp, of which he is a director. "Then I saw the tanks." He returned on Wednesday and saw at first hand the troops and police roadblocks put in place at dawn by the British government, worried that terrorists might try to shoot down an aircraft.
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