Flybe wants Southampton Airport sale
21.12.08
Flybe has called on the Competition Commission to force BAA to sell Southampton Airport. The regional budget airline said it was dismayed that the watchdog has not recommended the sale of Southampton in a provisional decision that calls for the sale of Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh airports.
Flybe’s chief commercial officer Mike Rutter said: ‘The Competition Commission have got it wrong on Southampton Airport. Despite detailed evidence provided to them by Flybe, they have ignored the obvious fact that BAA have for years given Southampton a poor deal in comparison to their other airports in the South East.'
‘We are calling on the Commission to revisit their findings, to actually undertake the research that they themselves admit is missing from their analysis and come back with a different answer in February when they publish their final report.’
He said in the future BAA would continue to concentrate exclusively on Heathrow, pricing Southampton to deter competition with Heathrow ‘to the clear detriment of south coast travellers’.
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