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1984 Mar 5 - 1984 Sep 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1163
Aerospace (Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Review; airline competition policy; position of British Caledonian and other independent airlines) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 313
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84 Sep 27 Thu Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Lord King, Marshall) ["CAA Review"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: Department of Transport briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Lord King Thursday, 27 September") [Civil Aviation Authority review of airline competition policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation policy: Prime Minister's meeting with Lord King on 27 September") [CAA review of airline competition policy: "We strongly support Mr Ridley's proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (airline competition review) [Robin Butler, Sir Adam Thomson: "Sir Adam said that he wanted you to know how unhappy he was with the proposals being put to him"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: Sherbourne record of conversation ("Lord King's meeting with the Prime Minister - Thursday 27th September") [Cecil Parkinson, Lord King: note of private conversation; King sorry for any embarrassment he has caused] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: Moore PS letter to Ridley PS (Financial Secretary's visit to the US: British Airways privatisation) ["likely to be considerable demand in the US for BA equity"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 Wed Aerospace: Chairman of British Airways letter to Ridley (airline competition policy) [summary of latest position on BA negotiations with other airlines & request for "your early decision"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 12 Wed Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT ("The Nott Undertakings") ["You asked to see the context of the John Nott undertakings quoted in Lord King's letters to MPs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 12 Wed Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Michael Bishop) ["CAA Review: British Midland Airways"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tue Aerospace: Department of Transport briefing for MT (Prime Minister's meeting with Chairman of British Midland Airways) [Civil Aviation Authority report on airline competition policy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tue Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Biffen, Tebbit, Ridley, Wakeham, Ian Percival) ["CAA Review"; Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tue Aerospace: Lord Cockfield letter to MT ("Aviation policy") ["You may wish to have a note of my views"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 10 Mon Aerospace: No.10 briefing for MT (Civil Aviation Authority review) [Howe comments; charter market firms] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 10 Mon Aerospace: Howe minute to Ridley (Civil Aviation Authority review) ["my comments on those aspects of the [draft Cabinet] paper which have an international dimension"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 10 Mon Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation Authority review") ["implications of the privatisation of British Airways... for competition"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fri Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Michael Bishop, British Midland Airways") ["it is still difficult to see precisely what Mr Bishop wants"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 7 Fri Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation policy") ["We see nothing but trouble in Mr Ridley's key recommendations"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 29 Wed Aerospace: Chairman of British Midland Airways Ltd letter to MT (Civil Aviation Authority review) ["I wish to express how threatened and vulnerable I consider our future prospects"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 21 Tue Aerospace: No.10 minute: Sherbourne to Alison ("British Airways, BCal and independents") [note of conversation with James Moorhouse MEP] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 21 Tue Aerospace: Lord King letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (future of British airline industry) [route transfers/BA privatisation: request to Lawson to "initiate... dialogue before all sides become even further entrenched"] [declassified Jan 2014]