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London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – British Airways and the Unite trade union held another round of talks on Friday in a bid to avert a cabin crew strike. The discussion was hosted by Acas, the conciliation service.

Unite is on the verge of holding another strike ballot over the disciplinary action imposed by BA on more than 100 stewards and stewardesses and the removal of travel perks of 6,700 flight attendants who joined 22 days of strike this year.

The trade union offered new peace proposals to British Airways British Airways, in turn, offered to restore the travel privileges that provide the cabin crew up to 90 percent discount on tickets, but minus the seniority status the cabin crew used to enjoy.

Because of their long history of disagreements over many labor issues, both sides are not discounting the possibility that the latest round of talks could still fail.

Unite projects a walk out could take place during the Christmas holidays, while BA insists job walk-offs would only affect the air carrier’s Heathrow’s- short-haul trips.

BA claimed that the 22 days of strike in March, May and June did not paralyze its operations, but the airline’s income from passenger fare went down 2.9 percent. It translated into a 3.1 percent decline in economy class travel and 1.4 percent drop in first and business class travels.

BA explained the decrease in passenger traffic to reduction of services to popular destinations such as Hong Kong.

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New Delhi, India (AHN) – Delhi just got costlier on the global retail barometer as one of its most posh markets, the Khan Market, moved up three rungs to become the 21st most expensive shopping street in the world.

The rental at Khan Market is calculated to be $284 per square foot in comparison to the $1,850 per square foot on New York’s Fifth Avenue, which continues to be the world’s costliest retail street, according to a survey.

The survey, carried out by real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield, tracked rents across the top 269 shopping locations in 59 different countries, to arrive at its global list of most expensive retail districts.

Other high streets famous for retail transactions in the Indian capital, like Greater Kailash and South Extension, did not record the same fervour as Khan Market. In fact, some areas of the national capital region, like Basant Lok, even recorded a huge decline of 38 percent in their rental values.

In comparison, Khan Market recorded a hike of more than 15 percent in its rental figures over the previous year.

Speaking on the survey, Executive Director Kaustuv Roy said, “With the markets gaining momentum and retailers, both national and international, revising their expansion plans in India, we are seeing a gradual resurgence in values. As before, key cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai will be seeing a faster rate of growth in values against others due to greater interest in these markets.”

While New York’s Fifth Avenue was predictably the world’s costliest shopping street, in the survey, titled, “Main Streets Across the World 2010,” Hong Kong’s Causeway came a close second and Ginza in Tokyo, Japan was third, leaving behind London, Paris and Milan.

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Sick Project Symptoms

Some of the sick project symptoms include:

• Excessive hard work;
• No time is allowed for taking breaks from work;
• Senior management are avoiding you;
• Sense of denial by team members that things are fine;
• Errors are compounding;
• The team people are tired and irritable; and
• No fun is being had by the team.

Project Failure Factors

There are also two levels of factors that lead to project failure. These are:

Level 1 factors – These factors guarantee project failure [or in street jargon, they are showstoppers]. That is, the project will fail to deliver quality, added value and professional satisfaction on time and in budget.

Level 2 factors – There are a number of other factors, which may not prevent the project from delivering on time and in budget, but will generally result in substantial degradation of quality, added value and professional satisfaction.

Project Management Experts

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Allen James has been a business analyst with a firm in Australia for seven years before moving to the field of writing full time. Today he writes a number of articles in which his experience of the field he worked in is reflected.

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