Re: Air passengers face fare hikes of up to £20 but BAA boss picks up £2.6m for presiding over baggage chaos
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Re: Air passengers face fare hikes of up to £20 but BAA boss picks up £2.6m for presiding over baggage chaos         

Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Fod
Date: Mar 13, 2008 02:54

On Mar 13, 7:48 am, Tony Dragon btinternet.com> wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>> On 12 Mar, 11:23, PeterT googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:33:10 -0700 (PDT), Doug riseup.net>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>> Rich pickings for some from the hypermobile eh?
>>>> "Air passengers face fare rises of up to £20 to bail out Britain's
>>>> creaking airports.
>>>> The news came as it was revealed that the boss who presided over
>>>> airport queue and baggage chaos was paid £2.6million last year.
>>>> The fare rises are to fund the debt-ridden Spanish owners of BAA which
>>>> runs the two biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick.
>>>> BAA is struggling under the weight of £9billion of debt taken on by
>>>> its parent company Ferrovial to fund its £10billion purchase of BAA 18
>>>> months ago.
>>>> Angry airline bosses say the rises have been sanctioned by the
>>>> Government's "weak" aviation watchdog only to save ministers the
>>>> embarrassment of bailing out "another Northern Rock-style collapse".
>>>> But the timing could not have been worse as they coincided with
>>>> publication of BAA's 2007 accounts showing that the airport operator
>>>> paid its recently ousted chief executive Stephen Nelson £2.6million,
>>>> including an unexplained one-off bonus of £1.5million..."
>>>> More:
>>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti...
>>> Up will go the price of your imported food then Duhng - that should
>>> wipe the smile from your face
>
>> Nope Pee, it will hardly make a dent, particularly as I save so much
>> and harm so little by not using a car, unlike you.
>
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>> Cars are the main contributor to food miles at 48%%.
>
> How does you not using a car have anything to do with the price of
> imported food?
>

Doug draws strength from the air itself using his superhuman powers of
self righteousness. His intense smugness at being better than
everyone else on the planet is so powerful it powers itself.

Fod
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