1984 Mar 5 - 1984 Sep 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1163
Aerospace (Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Review; airline competition policy; position of British Caledonian and other independent airlines) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 313 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 84 Mar 5 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("British Airways privatisation") [MT request, following meeting with Chair of BA, for further details on route transfers & Civil Aviation Authority review] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Mar 8 Th | Major | Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation) ["Lord King's view that CAA could produce a report which would damage BA and make privatisation more difficult"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jun 8 Fr | Major | Aerospace: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Turnbull ("British Airways - Employee Share Schemes") ["We like Mr Ridley's proposals"; Treasury disagrees] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 3 Tu | Major | Aerospace: Ridley minute to MT ("Civil Aviation Review") ["due to report... on the review which I asked them to undertake, of the implications of privatising British Airways... I summarise the general lines on which they seem likely to report"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 5 Th | Major | Aerospace: No.10 briefing for MT (unscheduled meeting with Nicholas Ridley) [Civil Aviation Review: route transfers] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 9 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Biffen briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation Review") ["route transfers... legislation... on the timescale which... [Ridley] outlines is virtually out of the question"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 10 Tu | Major | Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Civil Aviation Policy Review") ["the world at large will see our response to the CAA review as symbolic of our real intentions towards privatisation"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 10 Tu | Major | Aerospace: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor, Mr. Tebbit and Mr. Ridley) [Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation; Sealink] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 11 We | Major | Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Ridley, Tebbit, Biffen, Wakeham) ["Civil Aviation Review"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Major | Aerospace: Chairman of British Airways letter to MPs ("Future of the British airline industry") ["I am urging... [the govt] to keep... [BA] intact and to introduce more competition on our routes"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 17 Tu | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Civil Aviation Authority Review") [Govt response & timing of the announcement of its decisions] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 18 We | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Parliamentary Affairs: Civil Aviation Authority Review") [arguments against CAA proposed transfer of routes from British Airways to other airlines] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 20 Fr | Major | Aerospace: No.10 letter to Ridley PS ("CAA Review - British Caledonian") [Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation; request for advice on BCal Chairman's request for meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 20 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Howe minute to Ridley ("Civil Aviation Authority Review") ["I see no foreign policy complications in the course you propose"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 26 Th | Major | Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (Civil Aviation Authority report) ["I have asked... [Nicholas Ridley] to report the outcome of your discussions to me"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 27 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Julian Amery MP letter to Biffen (Civil Aviation Authority report) ["write to you as Leader of the House... on the procedural implications"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Jul 31 Tu | Major | Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("BA, BCal and the CAA") [Civil Aviation Authority review of the implications of British Airways privatisation; "The key issue is whether or not to transfer routes... We have advised you strenuously against this hitherto, and we still do so now"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 1 We | Major | Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Caledonian") [Robert Young record of conversation with BCal Chairman, Sir Adam Thomson] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 1 We | Major | Aerospace: Attorney General's Chambers letter to Ridley PS ("Civil Aviation Authority review") [transfer of routes] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 84 Aug 1 We | Major | Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit record of conversation ("British Caledonian") [Robert Young, Adam Thomson] [declassified Jan 2014] |