BAA loses appeal against ruling it must sell Stansted

[Joe Curry]

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

BAA argued that it was not reasonable to consider Stansted as serving
the same market as its other airport serving London, Heathrow. As a
result, BAA said it was not anti-competitive for it to operate both
airports, but the competition authority did not agree.

Full Story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16831480

[radar]

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk
BAA argued that it was not reasonable to consider Stansted as serving
the same market as its other airport serving London, Heathrow. As a
result, BAA said it was not anti-competitive for it to operate both
airports, but the competition authority did not agree.
Full Story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16831480

Can we just discuss Scottish airports please?

[Joe Curry]

In article <73af65ee-6653-43ac-b12d-***@m2g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, fisher2606
@hotmail.co.uk says...

Post by radar
Can we just discuss Scottish airports please?

All airports here except GLA-promotion...

Read the guidelines.

[BriggyD]

Post by radar
Can we just discuss Scottish airports please?

No! You chose otherwise and are now curiously afflicted by the
'howling like a stuck pig' syndrome, a very common affliction within
your western reggie-collecting allies.

[Joe Curry]

Post by BriggyD

Post by radar
Can we just discuss Scottish airports please?

No! You chose otherwise and are now curiously afflicted by the
'howling like a stuck pig' syndrome, a very common affliction within
your western reggie-collecting allies.

Best of it is there GLA dedicated alt.airports.uk.glasgow is empty apart
from some retaliatory EDI promo threads.

[Mizter T]

Post by Joe Curry
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk
BAA argued that it was not reasonable to consider Stansted as serving
the same market as its other airport serving London, Heathrow. As a
result, BAA said it was not anti-competitive for it to operate both
airports, but the competition authority did not agree.
Full Story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16831480

The appeal was largely a delaying tactic on BAA's part, was it not, in the
hope that they'd get a better price 'in the future'? Now that 'the future'
seems to have arrived (leaving aside any further legal challenges on BAA's
part), will they end up getting a better price than they would have when the
CC first directed them to sell up Stansted?

[Roland Perry]

Post by Mizter T
The appeal was largely a delaying tactic on BAA's part, was it not, in
the hope that they'd get a better price 'in the future'? Now that 'the
future' seems to have arrived (leaving aside any further legal
challenges on BAA's part), will they end up getting a better price than
they would have when the CC first directed them to sell up Stansted?

Probably not, the economy's on a long term "bust" at the moment, which
maybe Gordon Brown didn't mean to imply when he predicted the "end of
boom and bust" as being the long term end of boom.