My story in The American magazine is now up on its website. Here’s the lede: “Thirty years ago this October, the era of affordable mass air travel was unleashed. Why was this revolution stalled, and what can be done to finish it?”
Posts Tagged ‘BAA’
What’s wrong with commercial aviation?
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged air traffic control, airports, BAA, canada, competition, delays, Deregulation 2.0, dot, europe, faa, regulation, southwest, travel on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More on the BAA case
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged BAA, misc. on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a guest post on the Competition Commission’s remedies for BAA’s common ownership over at Towers and Tarmacs. Thanks to Benet Wilson for the invitation!
More on BAA: why it needs to be broken up
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, BAA, competition, europe, regulation on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been digesting the UK Competition Commission’s provisional findings on BAA, and I’ll have more to say on the proposed remedies later. Here, in summary form, is what the Commission has found.
BAA was privatized with control of London’s three main airports in 1987 primarily to increase airport efficiency and provide a solid financial base for [...]
As expected, Competition Commission finds BAA hinders competition at London airports
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, BAA, competition, europe on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Competition Commission has published its provisional findings. Key passage:
Our provisional view therefore is that a number of features each give rise to an AEC:
(a) As regards common ownership:
(i) Common ownership of Edinburgh and Glasgow is a feature which prevents competition between them.
(ii) Common ownership of the three BAA London airports is a feature of [...]
UK Competition Commission leaning toward breaking up BAA; will Heathrow be set free?
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, BAA, business, competition, delays, europe, regulation, travel on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The UK Competition Commission (CC) will likely recommend that BAA Ltd., the commercial owner-operator of London’s three primary airports, be forced to sell at least two of them. The CC signals this strong leaning in its “emerging thinking” document published on April 22. The CC is in the middle of an investigation of whether BAA’s [...]
UK Competition Commission: BAA is baad for competition
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, BAA, competition, europe on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As expected, the British Competition Commission released its interim report on competitive effects of BAA’s ownership of several UK airports (accounting for more than 60 percent of UK travelers), including most of the capacity in greater London and lowland Scotland. The conclusion?
The CC is inclined to the view that common ownership of the BAA airports [...]
Surprise! BAA to sell Gatwick; everyone wants to buy it
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, BAA, competition, europe, virgin on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No sooner do I say that the BAA case will be a hot topic this fall on yesterday’s Things with Wings Radio Show (thanks, Benet!) than BAA beats the Competition Commission to the punch and puts London’s Gatwick Airport up for sale. According to BAA’s chief, quoted in the Financial Times, “We have decided to [...]
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