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PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Laker: attempted settlement”) [“BA are required to report progress to the US judge on 8 May”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“British Aerospace sale”) [disclosure requirements in relation to sale of shares] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“UK/US Civil Aviation: Bermuda 2”) [“objectives and negotiating strategy”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 May 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Airports decisions and White Paper”) [statement to Parliament & Parliamentary debate] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: UKE Washington telegram 1757 to FCO (2104Z) (“Laker settlement negotiations”) [Laker’s demands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Airports policy: Decision letters and White Paper) [Stansted and Heathrow planning applications] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jun 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Laker settlement offer) [“a good outcome”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to No.10 (“British Airways: Laker litigation”) [line for Ministers to take on proposed settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Laker litigation) [settlement of the Laker case a first step toward BA privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Aug 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“UK/US aviation: future strategy”) [how to make progress over anti-trust, post-Laker settlement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Sep 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 85 Sep 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to Nick Ridley (“US/UK Aviation: Future Strategy”) [“our hand is extremely weak”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Howe (“US/UK Aviation: Future Strategy”) [“the antitrust issue must be on the agenda; otherwise a move towards a more liberal regime would merely increase the risk of new disputes like Laker”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Lynda Chalker letter to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [objectives: privatisation of BAA and conversion of local authority airports into companies] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Ken Clarke (BA pay proposals) [“BA will not have an easy ride in attempting to restructure the engineering grades”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [“a settlement at the level of the opening offer would be unhelpful for other public trading sector negotiations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Younger letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“your proposed solution risks causing uncertainty among potential investors in relation to the BAA prospectus”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“reservations about the functions which you envisage for the CAA”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Lynda Chalker (“Economic regulation of airports”) [CAA powers and responsibilities] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [“CAA should be the prime regulators of all core activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Economic regulation of airports”) [pleased that “the CAA’s powers will be directed at unreasonable discrimination against any class of airport user”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“I intend to resume discussion with the Americans about the application of competition rules to civil aviation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“the proposed flotation in the United States is likely to make BA an easy target for American contingency fee lawyers”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“likely to form a substantial category of claimant”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BAA pay”) [“prospects of privatisations together with BAA’s increased profitability have raised expectations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Airports Bill”) [pressure from backbenchers for compulsory privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [disappointed that Government will not be making claims] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howard letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [requests amendment in relation to CAA powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“I have stressed to BAA the need to keep their settlement as low as possible”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker class action settlement: claims by government departments”) [“if Government Departments are not to submit claims… Parliament should be told”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Action Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [opposes idea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Spicer letter to Michael Howard (Airports Bill) [proposed amendments: “I am not attracted to your ideas”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“content… with the proposal that departments should not submit claims”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“danger that we may be becoming too complacent about our alleged success in reducing public sector trading settlements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [defence against separate privatisation of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
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