"No plans to sell" - Moss
BA has no plans to sell its OpenSkies subsidiary, Dale Moss, the all business class carrier's managing director, said.
Dale Moss was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that since reports of the planned sale of OpenSkies in the summer, it had received five bids from European and UK private equity firms.
But he was quoted as saying BA also had no plans to "seek third party investment" in the carrier which operates between Paris Orly and New York JFK.
He was further quoted as saying that OpenSkies' load factor had risen 4% since August to 74%.
There was speculation in July that BA might sell OpenSkies after it reportedly appointedReynolds Partners, a London-based independent investment bank, to find a buyer.
The move came a week after Mr Moss said the carrier, launched in June 2008, has missed its first year financial targets.
Speaking at the Business Travel Market in London in June, he said it would "persevere" despite a drop on around 45% in business traffic on its two routes Paris and Amsterdam to New York.
A month later in August, the Amsterdam service was dropped.
At the time BA declined to comment on the reports of a sale.
In a statement it said: "We are reviewing all aspects of our business in the current economic environment.
"OpenSkies is a small part of our business and its losses are not significant compared to losses in other parts of the company."
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