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...Stewart Wingate said on Wednesday that the IT problem at Nats was “unacceptable”, noting that the last time an outage of this nature paralysed the UK’s air traffic system “was about a decade ago” as passengers...
...Stewart Wingate, chief executive of London’s Gatwick airport, welcomed the changes....
...Professor Willie Stewart, honorary professor at Glasgow university and leader of the study, told the Financial Times. “After all, it’s called football, not headball.”...
...Chief executive Stewart Wingate, has compared the logistical operation to trying to open a medium sized airport from scratch, and Gatwick has warned passengers to arrive early to avoid queues as thousands...
...Mr Gillespie barely squeaked by Corey Stewart, a county executive from the Washington exurbs whose reputation was built on harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric....
...Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, said any impact on airlines would be “marginal”. “There will be no significant impact on our costs,” he said....
...Cost would “make or break” the project, said Willie Walsh, chief executive. “The government’s directive to cap customer charges at today’s level is fundamental.”...
...Stewart Wingate, Gatwick’s chief executive, said the airport was “disappointed” and reiterated his doubts about the Heathrow plan’s viability....
...Stewart Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick, points to the lower costs involved in building a second runway at the West Sussex airport, which the Davies Commission estimated at £9.3bn — compared with £18.6bn...
...First Willie Walsh, head of airline group IAG, threatened legal action over the rising cost of repairing his aircraft....
...Chief executive Stewart Wingate said: “The capacity crunch facing Gatwick underlines the urgent need for a new runway.”...
...But Willie Walsh, head of IAG – parent to British Airways and Iberia – said he was sceptical....
...Grace McCloud, sitting in the garden of her council house in Possilpark, listened patiently as Willie Bain asked for her vote....
...However, they echoed Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, BA’s parent company, who has expressed strong doubts about how a new hub could be financed....
...Stewart Wingate, Gatwick airport’s chief executive, said ministers should consider a third runway at Heathrow to avoid the risk of a legal challenge to their policy making....
...John Stewart, a group spokesman, said some members might be more receptive to offers to buy their homes for market value “plus 25 per cent”....
...Willie Walsh, chief executive, said despite Unite’s threat of possible industrial action ahead of Christmas, “we’re not seeing any evidence of impact at this point” on revenues....
...“I would estimate it could cost between £10m and £30m a day,” said Andrew Fitchie, analyst at Collins Stewart....
...Willie Bain, Labour’s candidate, is a lecturer in public law who has emphasised his strong local connections....
...“Air France-KLM were lucky they were in a strong economic environment,” says Andrew Fitchie, airline analyst with Collins Stewart....
...Turko’s owner Andy Stewart notes that no six-year-old has won since 1915. Yet Stewart had his first Cheltenham Festival success last month after 10 years of trying. Maybe it is his year....
...Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes By Michael Gray Bloomsbury £25, 432 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Blind Willie McTell was posthumously celebrated as a great bluesman....
...Stagecoach, the bus and rail operator, fell 3.9 per cent to 251½p as takeover speculation faded and Collins Stewart downgraded to “sell”....
...Resolving the pensions issue has posed one of the biggest challenges to Willie Walsh since he took over as chief executive of the airline at the end of September 2005....
...Collins Stewart estimates the cost to BA is about £50m (€74.3m, $95.5m) so far and increasing by about £5m a day....
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