BAA wins appeal over selling airports
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By Alistair Potter. |  |
Monday, 21, Dec 2009 04:00
BAA, the airports operator, has today won an appeal against a Competition Commission ruling that it must sell three of its seven airports.
The commission ruled in March that BAA's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, and either Edinburgh or Glasgow, must be sold within two years.
But today a tribunal said the ruling panel was affected by "apparent bias", while rejecting BAA's argument that it had been forced to sell the airports too quickly.
The Spanish-owned group has already sold Gatwick, which will not be affected by today's judgement.
The Competition Appeal Tribunal said they had decided there was "apparent bias", with "the greatest reluctance".