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BAA ‘turns the corner’

28.10.09
Airports operator BAA today declared the worst is over for the aviation industry despite reporting widening losses ... more

Gatwick to get second runway in £1.5bn sale

21.10.09
Gatwick airport is set for a multi-million pound makeover after it was sold for £1.5 billion ... more

Gatwick to get second runway in £1.5bn sale

21.10.09
Airport operator BAA will sell Gatwick for £1.5 billion pounds to Global Infrastructure Partners, the owner of London City Airport ... more

Passenger numbers are still dropping says BAA

08.10.09
There is no sign yet of a recovery in the airline industry, latest figures show as BAA report falling numbers with Stansted worst affected ... more

Busiest August on record for Heathrow

10.09.09
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Attention Gatwick fliers: you are now entering limbo

31.07.09
BAA’s compulsory sale of London’s second airport under competition rules has stalled — and the delay means conditions for travellers are getting even worse ... more

More pain for debt-hit BAA as travellers cut back on flying

29.07.09
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports owner BAA slumped to a loss of £545 million in the first six months of the year, as recession-hit travellers cut back on trips and its pension fund deficit ballooned... more

Lord Mandelson: let the universities decide

29.07.09
Lord Mandelson has stated that it is up to universities, not the Government, to decide which students they admit. ... more

BAA losses soar as flyers keep their feet on the ground

05.05.09
BAA plunged £316million into loss in the first three months of the year as passengers stopped flying and the group's interest payments on its £9.5 billion debt mountain racked up ... more

NMC Songbook's tuneful celebration of the best of the new

02.04.09
As anybody interested in British contemporary music will testify, the NMC record label is indispensable... more

Fresh take from Nash Ensemble

06.03.09
The latest in the Nash Ensemble's periodic concerts devoted to new works brought no fewer than five world or UK premieres.... more

BAA dives £1.3bn into the red as its airports struggle

25.02.09
Aviation: The crisis at London’s airports saw BAA slump £1.3 billion into the red last year with its underlying performance crashing by 23%... more

Who's in and who's out

19.01.09
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Runway protesters in battle to halt Heathrow

12.01.09
Hundreds of demonstrators are expected to descend on Heathrow tonight in protest at the expected go-ahead for a third runway... more

Playmate, witch and now eco warrior trying to shut down Heathrow

09.01.09
One of the organisers of a mass protest trying to shut down a Heathrow terminal is a former soft-porn model turned witch... more

BAA backing for green Heathrow watchdog

26.11.08
Heahtrow operator BAA opened a new front in its battle for a third runway by proposing an environmental watchdog to cap flight numbers in future... more

Branson to bid as Gatwick is put up for sale at £2 billion

17.09.08
Gatwick airport has been put up for sale for an estimated £2 billion... more

Terminal 5 braces itself for the great summer getaway

21.07.08
Last April we sent a reporter to Heathrow to investigate the disastrous opening of its new terminus. Here he returns to find out if it will cope with this weekend's exodus... more

1,000 bags are still going missing every day at T5

10.07.08
The full catalogue of errors that led to the shambolic opening of Heathrow's new £4.3billion Terminal 5 can be revealed ... more

Comment: Lost luggage

10.07.08
As the holiday season approaches its peak, the airlines once again show their least attractive side to passengers by failing to reunite them with their luggage when they reach their destination... more

Airline to bill Heathrow over Terminal 1 hold-up

09.07.08
Bosses at BAA are facing a new multi-million-pound bill in the latest fiasco to hit Heathrow... more

Air chiefs tell Cameron: Heathrow must expand

26.06.08
The political row over Heathrow has intensified as two of the air industry's biggest figures turned their guns on David Cameron for opposing expansion... more

BAA boss: We deeply regret T5 errors

25.06.08
The new BAA boss has admitted that "mistakes" led to years of chaos at Heathrow culminating in the Terminal Five fiasco... more

Comment: Heathrow: now for new ideas

25.06.08
The new chief executive of BAA, Colin Matthews, has a hard task ahead of him as he sets out the case for a third runway at Heathrow... more

We weren't ready to open Terminal 5 admit BA bosses

07.05.08
British Airways bosses admit the opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5 should have been delayed because building work and testing had not been completed... more

Cool fixer who must engineer BAA out of trouble at T5

16.04.08
Colin Matthews has been keeping his head down over Heathrow, but BAA's chief executive will have to face his critics soon... more

Modern masters show their style

13.03.08
Any doubts that contemporary British music is alive and well would have been reassured by the indispensable Nash Ensemble.... more

Who's in and who's out

03.03.08
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BAA boss quits on eve of Heathrow T5 opening

27.02.08
The boss of airports operator BAA - which runs Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted - has quit amid a growing crisis at the company... more

Rattle brings new fire to Philharmonic

04.09.06
Rumblings of discontent in the German media concerning Simon Rattle's stewardship of the Berlin Philharmonic can safely be discounted.... more

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