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PREM19/1666
Aerospace (Future and structure of British Airways: engines for British Airways Boeing 747-400s; UK/US air services; UK/Canada air services) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 292
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86 Jan 30 Th Major Aerospace: Attorney General’s Chambers letter to Nick Ridley PS (“BA Privatisation”) [legal advice in context of ongoing Laker litigation in US] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Privatisation of British Airways”) [consideration of postponement due to ongoing Laker litigation] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Channon letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be necessary to persuade the US that what is being proposed will bring benefits to both sides”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 14 Fr Major Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Michael Spicer (MCC report) [“determining the appropriate regulatory regime for a monopoly… removed from the restraints of the public sector”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 24 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Channon (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [US visit: “we did not make much headway on aviation and anti-trust”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 27 Th Major Aerospace: Michael Ancram letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill: economic regulation”) [“we must avoid an over-zealous approach”] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 28 Fr Major Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute (“Privatisation of BA”) [possible exposure to US anti-trust litigation] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 4 Tu Major Aerospace: John MacGregor letter to Nick Ridley (“BA pay”) [objects to levels of proposed increases] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 6 Th Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS minute to Nick Ridley (“BA privatisation”) [“we need to set out properly the issues in the US negotiations, while keeping in something about the current anti-trust cases”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 7 Fr Major Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA privatisation”) [“There are compelling reasons to press ahead with the early flotation of BA”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 7 Fr Minor Aerospace: Michael Howard letter to Michael Spicer (airports’ accounts) [“there should be disaggregation only as between the traffic activities and the commercial activities as a whole of each airport”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (“British Airways”) [“A decision tomorrow to postpone privatisation… would damage morale at British Airways”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Negotiations over the UK/US Air Services Agreement (Bermuda 2)”) [risks of early privatisation and feasability of ongoing challenge to US anti- trust law] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“BA’s place in the privatisation programme”) [“Privatisation has been and could continue to be one of the most popular and successful measures of Government”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Channon minute to MT (“British Airways Privatisation and Negotiations over the UK/US Air Services Agreement (Bermuda 2)”) [Dept of Transport prospectus on possible exposure to US anti-trust litigation] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (UK/US air service agreement) [“before we proceed with the privatisation of British Airways, it is necessary to have a satisfactory agreement”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BA pay”) [BA “to carry out a thoroughgoing restructuring of the workforce in an effort to ensure their long term profitability”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Privatisation proceeds 1986-87”) [line to take on postponement of BA sale] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [a satisfactory offer “against a background of privatisation [and] improved performance”] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord King) [“British Airways”] [declassified 2014]