BAA ‘will choose which Scottish airport to sell’
15.03.09
The Competition Commission is expected to give BAA a choice of which Scottish airport it will sell when it delivers its final report on the company's future this week, the Scotland on Sunday reports.
The Commission is expected to confirm that Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh Airport must be sold to improve competitive pressures in the industry.
The Commission's report is expected to echo its earlier criticisms of BAA that the group's monopoly ownership of the three leading London airports, Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, and two Scottish airports is harmful to competition.
However, the newspaper reports that BAA is confident it has persuaded the Commission to let it make a decision over which airport to sell in Scotland. It is rumoured that Spanish officials visited Scotland in the summer and have decided that, if pushed, Glasgow would go. In recent years the airport has not performed as well as Edinburgh, which is need to have better earnings potential as it is more focused on scheduled services.
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