Spaniards Kicked Out Of Gatwick
Posted in Bad on 21. Oct, 2009
Gatwick Airport, the UK’s second busiest air hub has been sold to GIP – Global Infrastructure Partners for a whopping 1.51 Billion quid. Now Ferrovial, the company who did own it, can get back in their used Honda, (which has cost them several hundred in airport parking fees, but it’s ok coz they have the key to get the money out of the machine) and pay off their debts, which amount to 1 Bill.
The Competition Commission insisted that the Spaniards jack it in a Gatwick, and concentrate on the other UK airports they own, which include Heathrow and Glasgow. But they have to sell either Glasgow or Edinburgh by March 2011, and they have to palm Stansted off to someone by the same date.
Why are British airports so rubbish? We can only blame the Spanish. And possibly ourselves for having such rubbish taste in design. Letting people put up crap, barely functioning buildings that cannot handle these volumes of traffic. Heathrow’s a mess – it’s just been cobbled together over the decades. So what if it’s one of the busiest airports in the world; it provides one of the worst air travel experiences money can buy.
