Competition at last

摘要

It was one of the biggest, and most heavily leaked, trust-busting decisions in British corporate history. On March 19th the Competition Commission confirmed its provisional decision that baa, the firm that monopolises Britain's big airports, should be dismembered, selling off two airports near London as well as Edinburgh or Glasgow. Aware that the watchdog was planning such a move, BAA (which thinks the decision "flawed" and is pondering an appeal) had already put Gatwick airport (Britain's second biggest) on the market.