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Postcard-pretty Innsbruck becomes easier to reach today with the launch of a new British Airways service from Gatwick. The capital of the Austrian state of Tyrol is an appealing ski destination but it offers much more, too. This is a striking city in...
Tags: old town, Herzog-Friedrich Strasse, Gatwick, turn right, daily 10am, daily 9am, open daily, Austria, Innsbruck, Golden Roof, Bergisel, Winter Olympics, Tyrol, Hospitality Recreation, Rennweg
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a fund that invests in infrastructure assets, announced that it had recruited Stewart Wingate, the former managing director of Stansted, to run Gatwick as it challenges the airport operator’s Heathrow and Stansted...
Tags: Gatwick, United Kingdom, London, BAA Limited, Business Finance, London Gatwick Airport, British Caledonian, Heathrow Airport, Airport, Ferrovial Group, Gatwick Express, London Stansted Airport
Your wish is our command here on the Independent Travel Desk. Better still, we’ll leave the hard work to Inghams ( inghams.co.uk ), which is offering seven nights half-board accommodation at the four-star Fischerwirt Hotel in the Austrian ski resort of...
Tags: Gatwick, seven night, offering seven, Egypt, Cairo
S new owners have gone into orbit in their hunt for a board for the London airport. They are understood to have hired James van Hoften, a former astronaut who runs the airports business of Bechtel, the American engineering giant. The new board is expected...
Tags: Global Infrastructure Partners, Gatwick, BAA, United Kingdom, London, Airport, McAuslan Brewing, British Airways, Bechtel, BAA Limited, London Gatwick Airport, James van Hoften
Michael McGhee, a GIP partner, said that people using the UK's second busiest airport could expect improvements. "We will upgrade and modernise Gatwick airport to transform the experience for both business and leisure passengers. "We plan to work closely...
Tags: Gatwick, BAA, GIP, London City
Gatwick, controlled by Ferrovial's British airports operator BAA, is London's second busiest airport and could fetch up to €1.8 billion. "We're in advanced talks with more than one interested party and if things pan out as hoped we expect a sale in the...
Tags: BAA, Gatwick, airport operator
The new owner and operator of the airport will be Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture between Credit Suisse, the investment bank, and General Electric, the American industrial and financial-services conglomerate...The two sides have...
Tags: BAA, Heathrow, baa puts, tories opposition, Gatwick
BAA is expected to report a rise in July passenger numbers at Heathrow airport for the first time in three years tomorrow, reinforcing the group's claim that it does not need to sell Gatwick to meet a £1bn debt payment. Britain's largest airport owner...
Tags: BAA, Heathrow Terminal, passenger number, million passenger, Britain, Gatwick, busiest month
Pre-tax losses at BAA 's London airports trebled to £545.7m as the group lost more than 4 million air passengers over the first half due to the recession. Britain's largest airport owner was pushed deeper into the red by over £400m of exceptional charges,...
Tags: BAA London, Heathrow Terminals, london airport, passenger number, Gatwick, Stansted, credit market
The full cost of BAA's debt refinancing was revealed today as the Spanish-owned UK airports operator said its interest payments had soared to £327 million in the first quarter. The operator of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted also revealed that passenger...
Tags: BAA, passenger number, Gatwick, airport operations, Heathrow, debt cost, London, Stansted