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

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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