
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority threw something of a curve ball into the path of BAA’s planned securitization last month when it proposed that Stansted Airport be “de-designated”, which would effectively remove the airport from the BAA’s regulated asset base (RAB). The CAA has taken the view that a deregulatory environment might bring forward “efficient and economic” investment that “furthers the reasonable interest of users”. BAA does not yet charge up to the price cap set by the CAA at Stansted.
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