....Airport Operators Association (AOA) Annual Conference would normally be the opportunity for the industry to express its views to government on all matters affecting airports. Whilst keynote speaker Grant Shapps, Transport Minister, is of course welcome perhaps the Chancellor of the Exchequer should the invited another year. That person holds the purse strings for the whole sector’s future.
Last week Heathrow's CEO John Holland-Kaye was forthright in his condemnation of the Government's (that is the Treasury) lack of dedicated assistance with air travel and all that it affects...more
