STANSTED Airport must be sold, according to a Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling this morning (Wednesday, February 1).
The tribunal dismissed BAA’s challenge to the requirement that it must divest its Uttlesford hub as well as one Scottish airport.
Stop Stansted Expansion’s economics adviser, Brian Ross welcomed the judgment.
He said: “BAA has been appealing against the Competition Commission ruling that it must sell Stansted for almost three years now. The whole purpose has simply been to delay the inevitable and to serve the interests of its shareholders with little regard for the impacts on Stansted's employees and the local community.
"While all this has been going on, Stansted has lost more than 25 per cent of its passenger throughput. It has all the characteristics of a scorched earth policy.”
A spokeswoman for BAA said: “We are disappointed by the decision of the Competition Appeal Tribunal which we will now carefully consider before making any further statements.”
