For airport operators, getting in bed with one of Europe's most fractious airlines at a facility the government does not want to see expand may not seem like an attractive proposition, but the anticipated forced sale of Stansted Airport may yet defy skeptics. The details of what will happen to London Stansted are still not fully determined, but the writing is on the wall. The U.K.'s Competition Commission has been arguing for some time and recently concluded that airport operator BAA has to divest the facility as part of a larger restructuring in which it has sold Gatwick Airport and will soon shed either Edinburgh Airport or Glasgow Airport. Although the final legal word has not been given, even BAA owner Fer-rovial concedes Stansted will have to go.
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