Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

[Article] Authorities must consider airport breakup - BA

  • 25-08-2006 12:27am
    #1
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭


    Funny, isn't it that its a bunch of Paddies pushing the UK aviation industry.

    http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0824/baa.html
    Authorities must consider airport breakup - BA
    August 24, 2006 13:39

    British Airways has called for competition authorities to consider breaking up ownership of two key London airports as part of an investigation into UK airports.

    BA said an Office of Fair Trading investigation into airport ownership should be referred to the Competition Commission because of concerns about airport regulation and ownership. The airline said the commission should consider separate ownership of London's Heathrow and Stansted airports.

    Both airports, along with a third at Gatwick, are owned by BAA, which was bought by Spain's Ferrovial earlier this year. Ferrovial also manages Belfast airport and Bristol and Exeter airports in western England.


    'Separate ownership of London Heathrow and London Stansted would make infrastructure developments at the airports more responsive to airlines' and their customers' needs and expansion at one airport would not be held back to suit the commercial needs of a monopoly owner,' BA's CEO Willie Walsh said in a statement.

    BA made the comments in its response to the OFT investigation which was announced in June.

    BAA has faced calls for its break-up for years because of its dominance of the UK airports sector. Its seven UK airports include London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, and it plans to continue growing with a new terminal at Heathrow in 2008 and a new runway at Stansted by 2013.

    Airlines were highly critical of BAA after tightened security measures at London airports following a suspected bomb plot forced them to cancel hundreds of flights earlier this month.


Advertisement