Another airline executive has been investigated for abetting perjury and for receiving leaked information from the investigation into the incident.

A senior airline executive said a review would be pointless.

But there comes a time, as one airline executive famously said, when you cut so much cheese off the pizza that no one will eat it.

Last week airline executives and transport bankers were talking about another, more intriguing possibility.

He also found himself in the unusual position of winning the immediate support of other airline executives.