What is the difference between an airport and an airline?
The Airport operates and maintains the physical facility on the ground: the terminal, runways, taxiways, etc.… and the airport leases space to the airlines. Airport leases do not include airline performance standards because airlines won't agree to them and the airlines hold all the cards in today's landscape.
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Who owns the airports? Since the British Airport Authority (BAA) was privatised in 1986, the state does not own any of the airports in the UK. Heathrow is now owned and run by Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited (formerly BAA), which is in turn owned by FGP Topco Limited, a consortium led by Ferrovial SA of Spain.
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