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Max Flint: Tonight on the Money Programme: are you one of the 18 million passengers who fly between Britain and America every year?

Adrian Gill: My son lives in New York, and we’d like to visit him a lot more frequently but we can’t because of the price of tickets.

Max: Now there’s revolution in the air. It’s called ‘Open Skies’ and could it mean cheaper flights?

Simon Calder: There’s been lots of talk about flying the Atlantic for seven pounds, six pounds, five pounds.

Max: Decades of anti-competitive regulations are about to be swept away, and the airlines will now have to fight for your business.

Bobby Delta: We’ll launch our first London Heathrow services: one a day from Atlanta, two a day from New York.

Bob Schumacher: We’re delighted to bring our award-winning product to Heathrow.

Max: For the minnows taking on the big boys, the stakes are high.

Jonathan Hinkles: We don’t consider failure. There isn’t a plan B. It’s got to work.

Max: But the established carriers are putting up a fight.

Steve R: Prices are already extremely competitive, and if you’re remotely complacent you will lose.

Max: So who’s going to win the battle for passengers? And, are we really on the brink of a transatlantic price war?

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Max Flint: Tonight, on the Money Programme, have you ever bought a dodgy DVD or a fake handbag? It seems many of us have. And these days no brand is safe from the booming counterfeit trade.

Man: There’s nothing that’s not being faked these days. Everything from tea bags to entire petrol stations. It’s economic to do a ‘knock off’ of anything that can be manufactured.

Max: As the counterfeiters extend their range it’s getting harder to tell the fake from the genuine article.

I think you’re going to be surprised. I’m afraid ladies it’s real.

Woman: Oh it’s horrible!

Max: Whether you’ve bought a fake with a nod and a wink, or a knock off without knowing, we look at what’s all the rage in the counterfeit trade and find out the real cost of Britain’s favourite fakes.

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Valerie Singleton: Tonight on the Money Programme: is your age a barrier to your making it in the world of business?

Sir Alan Sugar: I’m afraid to say that some people believe that when you get past a certain age of 50 that it’s all over. Well, they’re wrong, they’re totally wrong.

Valerie: Britain has never had such an elderly and healthy population, with almost 30 million of us over 60.

Laurie South: We need to capture those people and actually help them to fulfil their dreams, because there are some amazing ideas out there.

Valerie: We meet the 60-somethings who have decided there’s a working alternative to 20 years of gentle retirement.

Annabel Rhodes: If we’re going to do this we’ve got to be better, we’ve got to be cheaper, we’ve got to have an angle and we’ve got to do something that nobody else is doing.

Jacquie Lawson: And we went for it. And we’re still going for it. I still think we’re the best generation that ever was.

Valerie: Why are more and more of my generation are rejecting the quiet life and opting to enter the world of business, saying “I’m too young to retire”?

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Max Flint: Tonight, on the Money Programme, the rise of spying in business, as companies break the law to keep ahead of the competition.

We expose the murky practices of phone bugging, computer hacking, and secret filming, that are expanding across the corporate world.

Mick Gorrill, Information Commissioner: There’s a big demand for it, created by companies that should know better.

Max: In the glamorous world of Formula 1, McLaren’s been fined 50 million pounds, for spying on a rival.

Eddie Jordan: I don’t think a major team can survive Formula 1 without having knowledge of what their opposition is doing.

Max: And it’s not just glitzy industries at it. A waste tycoon has also been caught red-handed.

Hyland: In his own words, he’d “do anything to protect his business”.

Max: So just how far are companies willing to go, if they want to get their hands on their rivals’ dirty little secrets?