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Source: news.uk.msn.com --- 13 days ago
The chairman of BAA, Britain's biggest airport operator, has acknowledged that he expected the Competition Commission to order the break-up of the company. Sir Nigel Rudd said in a BBC interview that he believed BAA would be forced to sell off some of its key airports - such as Gatwick or Stansted. ... Source: entertainment.in.msn.com --- 27 days ago
... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 13 days ago
BAA, owner of seven UK airports, expects the competition watchdog to order the break up of the company. ... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 24 days ago
Airports operator BAA sues Ireland's Ryanair for failing to pay increased landing charges at Stansted. ... Source: www.bbc.co.uk --- 12 days ago
BAA is getting ready to sell at least one of it's London airports and one in Scotland. Robert Peston talks to BAA chairman Nigel Rudd and we talk to Theresa Villiers who speaks on Transport for the conservatives ...
Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
THE airports group BAA faces a crunch week for its 7.1 billion refinancing. Bondholders in the company vote on Tuesday whether to accept the terms of a plan to shift their loans into a new credit structure. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
INTERNATIONAL infrastructure groups have approached BAA with offers to buy Gatwick, Londons second airport, for up to 3 billion. ... Source: uk.reuters.com --- 13 days ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The chairman of British Airports Authority (BAA) said on Saturday he expects the Competition Commission to recommend the breakup of the airport operator, but added that would not be a financial disaster. ... Source: business.guardian.co.uk --- 11 days ago
Divestment would be no 'disaster', says chairman, as Gatwick likely to attract worldwide interest ... Source: uk.reuters.com --- 19 days ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's Competition Commission may be set to recommend the break-up of the British Airports Authority (BAA), which is owned by Spain's Ferrovial , The Observer newspaper reported. ... Source: money.telegraph.co.uk --- 17 days ago
The Competition Commission is next week expected to kick-start the break-up of BAA after finding that the airport group’s monopolies in the South East and Scotland are not in the public interest. ... Source: money.telegraph.co.uk --- 12 days ago
It has enjoyed a virtual monopoly for 20 years, but the regulators are poised to inject competition into the airports sector, writes Alistair Osborne. ... Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 24 days ago
BAA, the airports operator, has started legal action against Ryanair after the budget carrier refused to pay higher landing fees. ... Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 24 days ago
BAA, the airports operator, has started legal action against Ryanair after the budget carrier refused to pay higher landing fees. ... Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 13 days ago
BAA has admitted it will be forced to sell off some of its key airports, such as Gatwick and Stansted, should the Competition Commission recommend a break-up of the company. ... Source: www.ft.com --- 13 days ago
The UK Competition Commission's provisional findings after a 16-month investigation into BAA are reported to include a proposal to strip it of all but one of its Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted operations ... Source: www.ft.com --- 11 days ago
Rival groups and infrastructure funds are preparing bid approaches for UK airports owned by BAA as it completes a complex £13bn refinancing package ... Source: www.ft.com --- 21 days ago
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, said he "fully expects" to lose his latest legal stand-off with BAA over the budget airline's refusal to pay increases in landing fees at Stansted ... Source: www.ft.com --- 21 days ago
The airport operator is in advanced discussions to put up an estimated £250m towards the new rail link between Heathrow and the City, sources close to the negotiations say ... Find more results for BAA on RSSMicro.com |
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The charge sheet against BAA is a long one. Passengers moan about overcrowding and delays in its terminals. Airlines complain that the charges levied by the owner of the UK's largest airports are excessive. For the Competition Commission part of the solution would be for there to be proper competition between airports. Which is why next week the competiton watchdog will recommend that BAA's near-monopoly of airports in the South East and in lowland Scotland should be smashed. BAA would keep Heathrow but probably be forced to sell either or both of London's Gatwick and Stansted airports and also Edinburgh or Glasgow airport. Sir Nigel Rudd , BAA's chairman, discloses in an interview with me (to be broadcast on BBC News tonight as part of my Leading Questions series of interviews with business leaders) that he fully expects such a recommendation from the Commission. And he says that dismantling BAA in this way would not be a financial disaster for its owners, led by Ferrovial of Spain. The owners have already had what he describes as "huge expressions of interest" from potential buyers of Gatwick and Stansted, he says. And he insists that the painful recession afflicting airlines right now hasn't depressed in a serious way what Ferrovial and its partners would receive from a sale. But just because the Heathrow proprietors could cope with the disposal of these airports would not make their disposal a good thing: Rudd believes that breaki ...