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1985 May 3 - 1986 Jan 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1665
Aerospace (Future and structure of British Airways: settlement of litigation concerning the collapse of Laker Airways; airports policy; USA/UK future aviation strategy; economic regulation of airports; competition regime for UK/US aviation) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 387
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85 May 3 Fr Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“BA are required to report progress to the US judge on 8 May”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 16 Th Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on airports policy”) [“encouraging enterprise and efficiency… [while recognising] continuing role of Government as regulator and referee”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 21 Tu Major Aerospace: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“British Aerospace sale”) [disclosure requirements in relation to sale of shares] [declassified 2014]
85 May 22 We Major Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“UK/US Civil Aviation: Bermuda 2”) [“objectives and negotiating strategy”] [declassified 2014]
85 May 30 Th Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Airports decisions and White Paper”) [statement to Parliament & Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 4 Tu Major Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 1757 to FCO (2104Z) (“Laker settlement negotiations”) [Laker’s demands] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 5 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Airports policy: Decision letters and White Paper) [Stansted and Heathrow planning applications] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“sooner we can wind up the civil action… the better, not least for the civil aviation relationship between [UK & US]”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to John Wakeham PS (“Debate on airports policy, Monday 17 June”) [text of the motion, early debate in the Lords] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 11 Tu Major Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Laker settlement offer) [“a good outcome”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jun 12 We Major Aerospace: Chairman of British Airports letter to MT (response to Airports Policy White Paper) [‘Stansted go-ahead “excellent news for air transport industry”’] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 3 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“BA: Laker litigation”) [“BA have now worked out a possible way round the problem which might either bring Laker to settle, or at least isolate him”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 15 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [line for Ministers to take on proposed settlement] [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 15 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Laker litigation) [settlement of the Laker case a first step toward BA privatisation] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 21 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [settlement “will dispose of one of the major legal problems which have been delaying privatisation”] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 30 Fr Major Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Nick Ridley (“Privatisation programme”) [timing of BA sale, announcement that sale will go ahead in 1986] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 18 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“UK/US aviation: future strategy”) [how to make progress over anti-trust, post-Laker settlement] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 18 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BA pay”) [Chief Executive says he is “under exceptionally heavy pressure to open pay negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to Nick Ridley (BA pay proposals) [“an offer of 10% to BA engineers would seriously undermine attempts to moderate public pay sector increases”] [declassified 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mo Major Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“US/UK Aviation: Future Strategy”) [“our hand is extremely weak”] [declassified 2014]