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30/03/2011
BAA To Press Ahead With Airport Sales
BAA should still be required to sell Stansted Airport and Edinburgh or Glasgow Airport, the Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally concluded today.
The CC has been considering whether there have been any material changes in circumstances since it published its final report on BAA in March 2009 that should give it cause to reconsider the implementation of the airport sales Court of Appeal required by that original decision. The decision was subject to a legal challenge by BAA, which eventually culminated with the reinstating the CC's findings in October 2010. In February, the Supreme Court refused BAA permission to appeal further.
The CC has provisionally concluded that the sale of the airports is fully justified and that passengers and airlines would still benefit from greater competition with the airports under separate ownership, despite the current Government's decision to rule out new runways at any of the London airports.
The CC has also concluded that there is no reason to change the original timescale with the Stansted sale followed by sale of one of the Scottish airports.
CC Chairman and Chairman of the BAA Remedies Implementation Group, Peter Freeman,
said: "The CC will now invite responses before publishing its final verdict in May/June.
We remain convinced that the original decision to require BAA to divest three airports is the right one for passengers and airlines.
"We have re-examined that decision in the light of a significant subsequent development when the Government decided to rule out further runways at London’s airports. Having examined the case closely, we are clear that many benefits will still arise without that expansion, by increasing competition and addressing detrimental effects from BAA’s common ownership."
Stansted is to be sold first, with either Glasgow or Edinburgh airports following later.
(BMcN/GK)
The CC has been considering whether there have been any material changes in circumstances since it published its final report on BAA in March 2009 that should give it cause to reconsider the implementation of the airport sales Court of Appeal required by that original decision. The decision was subject to a legal challenge by BAA, which eventually culminated with the reinstating the CC's findings in October 2010. In February, the Supreme Court refused BAA permission to appeal further.
The CC has provisionally concluded that the sale of the airports is fully justified and that passengers and airlines would still benefit from greater competition with the airports under separate ownership, despite the current Government's decision to rule out new runways at any of the London airports.
The CC has also concluded that there is no reason to change the original timescale with the Stansted sale followed by sale of one of the Scottish airports.
CC Chairman and Chairman of the BAA Remedies Implementation Group, Peter Freeman,
said: "The CC will now invite responses before publishing its final verdict in May/June.
We remain convinced that the original decision to require BAA to divest three airports is the right one for passengers and airlines.
"We have re-examined that decision in the light of a significant subsequent development when the Government decided to rule out further runways at London’s airports. Having examined the case closely, we are clear that many benefits will still arise without that expansion, by increasing competition and addressing detrimental effects from BAA’s common ownership."
Stansted is to be sold first, with either Glasgow or Edinburgh airports following later.
(BMcN/GK)
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