Airports operator BAA agrees to be taken over by Spanish building firm Ferrovial in a ?10.3bn deal...

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Listed group Australian Infrastructure Fund has confirmed it will seriously consider buying British airport giant BAA's 15 per cent stake in Perth Airport if given the chance...

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Goldman Sachs announces that it will no longer proceed with a takeover bid for UK airports operator BAA...

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Airports operator BAA is to say that last month's terror security alert cost the business at least ?20m...

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Australian airports say it will be business as usual in the wake of British Airport giant BAA's decision to sell its stakes in local operators...

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Hochtief AG, Germany's biggest construction company, said it plans to buy Budapest airport from BAA Plc less than a year after losing out in a bidding contest for Hungary's largest airport...

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U.K. MPs call for the break-up of airport operator BAA, saying its dominance is stifling competition....

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Britain's antitrust regulator reported that BAA's ownership of seven airports, including three major airports serving London, may not serve the interests of passengers or airlines....

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BAA Ltd., the owner of London?s Heathrow airport, was ordered to sell two U.K. airports after an appeals court rejected its claim of regulatory bias during a probe of the industry....

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BAA has delayed the moves of Qatar Airways and Saudi Airlines from T3 to T4, although Air Mauritius is set to move across today as planned.

Qatar Airways had also been due to move operations to T4 today (November 24), but as detailed on our forum this has been delayed until December 8 ?to allow for essential developments to the baggage handling system at our new terminal which will assist us in offering our customers a hassle-free and enjoyable travel experience?.

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The chief executive of the airport operator BAA, which is responsible for London's Heathrow, says he will not be taking his bonus for 2010 following the travel chaos caused by heavy snow....

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The severe weather in December cost UK airports operator BAA ?24m, the company says, with passenger numbers down nearly 11%....

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Britain's biggest airport has hit a new milestone with more than 70 million passengers filing through in the space of 12 months – although Heathrow's owner admits the increase in its record-breaking year is largely down to Easter....

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London Heathrow airport owner BAA Airports Ltd. won permission to present its appeal to overturn an order that it must sell its Stansted terminal to meet antitrust rules...

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Britain's government will not block BAA from submitting proposals for a third Heathrow runway in a forthcoming revamp of policy on aviation hubs, in a move that heads off the threat of legal action by the airport owner....

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