Ryanair calls for break up of BAA
Ryanair has renewed its call for a break up of the Spanish-owned BAA airport monopoly following the chaotic opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
Ryanair claims that the security queues, flight delays and baggage chaos endured by passengers at Heathrow’s T5 are 'symptomatic of widespread failure common at many BAA airports including Stansted and Gatwick where passengers routinely suffer long queues at security and passport control as well as repeated baggage belt breakdowns'.
Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary said: "This morning’s chaos at Heathrow provides further compelling evidence of the need to break up the BAA monopoly. We should allow competition between the London airports to deliver more efficient facilities, better passenger service and lower costs where the BAA airport monopoly has failed.
"If the BAA London airport monopoly was split up, competition would deliver better services and efficient terminals which actually work as opposed to complicated Taj Mahals like Heathrow’s T5. It is high time to break up this BAA airport monopoly."
