BAA responds to CAA price control proposals

BAA's priorities are to improve the service we offer our passengers on a daily basis, and to transform Britain's airports to make them truly world class.

That is our ambition, and it will remain so.

The key question, therefore, is how far the CAA's proposals support that ambition.

While we welcome the evidence of movement in some areas, we believe the regulator has not recognised the significant challenges we all face in transforming passengers' daily experience and the new security reality in which we operate.

But the reason our airports have not been transformed as they should have been is a sustained lack of investment resulting in part from a series of long planning delays. BAA is determined to make that investment, but we do not believe these proposals yet recognise the scale of what is required and the risk involved.

We note, however, that the CAA is embarking on a period of consultation, and that it has said there are a number of matters on which it will reflect further. We will use that period to make our concerns known, and we would call on others who share our ambition for Britain's airports to do likewise.

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Malcolm Robertson, BAA Limited
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Mike Smith, Finsbury
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