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"Dirty Tricks" was the name of a business scandal targeted against Virgin Atlantic. It was run by the rival airline British Airways (BA), whereby BA representatives would call up Virgin customers pretending to be from Virgin and try to get them to switch their flights to BA as well as hacking computers to gain access to insider information on Virgin's flights. The Virgin Group chairman, Richard Branson sued BA over it and was paid a total of £3.51 million in compensation.

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  • "Dirty Tricks" was the name of a business scandal targeted against Virgin Atlantic. It was run by the rival airline British Airways (BA), whereby BA representatives would call up Virgin customers pretending to be from Virgin and try to get them to switch their flights to BA as well as hacking computers to gain access to insider information on Virgin's flights. The Virgin Group chairman, Richard Branson sued BA over it and was paid a total of £3.51 million in compensation. (en)
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  • "Dirty Tricks" was the name of a business scandal targeted against Virgin Atlantic. It was run by the rival airline British Airways (BA), whereby BA representatives would call up Virgin customers pretending to be from Virgin and try to get them to switch their flights to BA as well as hacking computers to gain access to insider information on Virgin's flights. The Virgin Group chairman, Richard Branson sued BA over it and was paid a total of £3.51 million in compensation. Another Virgin Group company was subject to predatory behaviour, when the Coca-Cola Company reacted negatively to the success of Virgin Cola. (en)
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