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Article: Facing up to flying flak; NEWS SPECIAL: MAN WHO RUNS GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH AIRPORTS DEFENDS HIS CONTROVERSIAL RECORD; Don't write off Glasgow Airport, says under-fire Scots BAA boss
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- June 6, 2002
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GLASGOW leaders fear the city's airport could become little more
than a sunshine charter base as rival Edinburgh booms.
Chief Reporter DAVID LEASK challenges the man who runs both
airports to explain why he insists Glasgow is safe in his hands.
DONAL Dowds smarts when he's asked if he favours Edinburgh over
Glasgow.
The managing director of BAA Scottish Airports, the firm which
owns both airports, dismisses any suggestion of bias as the invention
of "amateur aviation commentators".
Yet Glasgow council chiefs are so worried about his company's
ownership of both Glasgow and Edinburgh airports they have asked
Britain's competition watchdog, the Office for Fair Trading, to
investigate.
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