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| | BA drops Olympic bid - Jun. 2, 2000 |
 | | BA had an option to take a 20 percent stake in Olympic, the last wholly state-owned national carrier in Europe, after Greece last year hired the U.K. company's consulting arm Speedwing in an attempt to stem a decade of heavy losses. |
 | | Speedwing executive Rod Lynch, who took over as Olympic chief executive in 1999, is expected to leave having recently clashed with unions over his plans to cut jobs. |
 | | However, analysts said Olympic, long seen as the basket case of the European aviation industry, was far from being an attractive proposition, given a long history of political complications and difficult labor relations. |
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