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Minister sees fast-track passport gates in action
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
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Passengers using the system said it was very fast. French businessman Eric Laumonier, from Bordeaux, said: "It's good because I do not have to queue. It's very good, very fast." Post a Comment Subject: Message:
Tags: Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom, London, Data security, Radio-frequency identification, Passport, London Stansted Airport, London Gatwick Airport, Biometrics, BAA Limited, Biometric passport
BAA loses big after Gatwick sale
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility BAA reports high pre-tax losses due to Gatwick sale British airport operator BAA also hit by falling passenger numbers and 'increased pension scheme deficit' Gatwick Airport, West Sussex, which BAA was forced to sell at a reduced rate. Photograph: Roger...
Tags: BAA Ltd., Gatwick Sale, Gatwick Airport, airport operations, operations baa, million pounds, passenger numbers, London Heathrow, Grupo Ferrovial SA
BAA Announces Gatwick Airport Sell-Off
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility In March, the Competition Commission ruled that the company would have to sell the airport within two years. The Commission also ordered BAA to sell Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh after it found competition problems at each of its seven UK airports.
Tags: BAA Ltd., London Gatwick, Gatwick Airport, Grupo Ferrovial SA, London Stansted, buy gatwick, Britain, sell london, billion pounds, Edinburgh
BAA begins airports sale appeal
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Competition Commission ruled in March that BAA must sell Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh or Glasgow airports within two years. BAA will argue there was an "apparent bias" due to a link between a member of the ruling panel and an organisation interested...
Tags: Competition Commission, BAA, Gatwick Airport, Heathrow
Plane crashes at Iran airport, killing 17
Tehrān :: Iran | 4 months ago
Credibility TEHRAN: Seventeen people were killed when a passenger aircraft caught fire while landing at the airport of Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Friday, the state news agency IRNA reported. An airport official said there were 153 people on board the aircraft,...
Tags: Iranian, emergency landing, Mashhad, Gatwick Airport, plane crashed, caught fire, Tehran, Aria Airlines, Yerevan, en route
English cricketer jailed for drug smuggling
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
Credibility A jury at Croydon Crown Court near London convicted Lewis of trying to bring more than 140,000 pounds ($280,000) worth of the drug into the country from St Lucia, packed in cans of fruit and vegetable juice. His co-accused Chad Kirnon was also found guilty...
Tags: Chris Lewis, Ex-England, england cricketer, Britain, Gatwick Airport, smuggle cocaine, cricketer chris, St Lucia, kit bag, vegetable juice
Plane evacuated after false bomb alarm
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility An Emirates Airline plane that had landed at London's Gatwick airport from Dubai was evacuated on Sunday due to a false bomb alarm, a police spokeswoman said. All the craft's 164 passengers and 18 crew members were removed from the plane after a note...
Tags: Gatwick Airport, emirates flight, Dubai, London, note implying, suspicious device, security threat, Sussex Police
Gatwick bidders fuel up
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility THE Competition Commission will this week assess the three consortiums bidding for Gatwick Airport in an attempt to gauge their suitability to run the UK's second-busiest airport. A spokesman for the regulator, which last week ordered the break-up of...
Tags: BAA, Gatwick Airport
BAA told to sell Gatwick and Stansted
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility BAA ordered to sell off Gatwick and Stansted • Airport expansion project likely to face further delay • Warning that sale may not clear group's pile of debt The Competition Commission further disrupted the government's airport expansion programme yesterday...
Tags: BAA, The Competition Commission, Gatwick Airport, Stansted • Airport, Glasgow, Edinburgh
O'Leary seeks Aer Lingus profit forecasts
Dublin :: Ireland | 11 months ago
Credibility Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has called on the Aer Lingus chairman to clarify profit forecasts and other issues in the wake of Ryanair's latest takeover bid for the carrier. Ryanair, which owns 29.8 per cent of its rival, has made a €748 million...
Tags: Aer Lingus, Gatwick Airport, Ryanair
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