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Sale of Edinburgh, Gatwick and Stansted Airports on the horizon

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 26 2009

The Competition Commission (CC) is proposing to require BAA to sell a number of airports to address competition concerns

British Airways - High Court dismisses novel class action claim

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 12 2009

In its recent judgment in Emerald Supplies Limited & Anr. v British Airways Plc the High Court has struck out an attempt by US claimant law-firm, Hausfeld & Co LLP, to bring what was, in effect, a US-style class action claim before the English courts

Commission clears Iberia's acquisition of Vueling and Clickair, subject to conditions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Spain
  • -
  • January 23 2009

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of the two low-cost Spanish airlines, Vueling and Clickair, by the Spanish flag-carrier Iberia, on the condition that commitments to safeguard competition and passenger choice are implemented

Collective settlement for fuel surcharge price-fixing reached

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 12 2008

Details have been announced of British Airways’ (BA) and Virgin Atlantic’s (Virgin) settlement of a multimillion US dollar class action brought in the US courts

Commission dawn raids airlines

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 14 2008

On 11 March 2008, the European Commission carried out unannounced inspections “dawn raids” at the offices of a number of international airlines

Transport

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • September 2 2009

The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Austrian Airlines by Deutsche Lufthansa AG of Germany

ASA v Ryanair OFT, you decide

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 15 2008

After banning its ninth Ryanair advert in just two years, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has taken the radical step of referring Europe's largest budget airline to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT

Aer Lingus’s request for interim measures rejected

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 16 2008

The Court of First Instance (CFI) has rejected an injunction application by Aer Lingus requesting that Ryanair refrain from exercising its voting rights in the company pending the outcome of an action for annulment of the European Commission decision that refused to order Ryanair to divest its 29.4 shareholding following Ryanair’s blocked acquisition attempt

Competition Commission orders BAA to sell three airports

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 27 2009

BAA Limited is the successor of the State-operated British Airports Authority, which was privatised in 1987

British Airways fights off a “class action”

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 27 2009

The Chancellor of the UK ’s High Court dismissed a claim brought against British Airways ("BA ") on behalf of a broad group of air-freight customers