BAA management and their owners deserve all the misery they get - they have imposed enough on their customers in recent years, deliberately, in an attempt to get us to spend more.

kenneth edward o'neill, Belfast, n.ireland

OMG, BAA is charging 1 GBP for a plastic bag to put liquid containers into????? Are these the same sort of bags that are handed out FREE to travellers going through security gates at US and Canadian airports? If so, I would be up in arms at being fleeced a pound for what probably costs pennies, AND for which the multitude of airport charges should very easily cover!

Ed, Toronto, Canada

Looks like even more good reasons for voiding Heathrow.

Thank goodness we can fly direct to Amsterdam with everything within walking distance.

Dave Hunter, Redcar,

Yes doesn't the ticket price include airport fees? So things like car parking and transparent bags should be included already? I think we're being double charged for corporate profit.

I don't live in London and welcome regional airports having decent services, shorter queues and more reasonable prices, without having to arrive about 3 hours ahead of flights to brave London queues and the money-grabbing departures lounge.

James, Bristol,

to saud, riyadh
I think you will find the only thing western companies worship is money so I would not describe BP as christian.

Paul, London,

Looks like a fire sale to me. We all know what the Govt should do about it - not letting the UK's key, strategic airports be owned by a foreign company would be a start - but they won't.

You can bet that one way or another, we (taxpayers and consumers) will all end up paying for this greed. It's ot a bad blag is it? Buy a company with money that you borrow and then saddle the company you've just bought with the debt to pay it of. Meanwhile, you just sit back and rake in the money.

This is happening time and time again now and it should be illegal. But the Govt just sits on its hands...........

Staphen Edwards, Wokingham, UK

to barry -london
ownership of an islamic fund is like christian BP owning oil feild in abu dhabi
so why is not ok here and ok there

saud, riyadh,

Colin Matthews would be very good for BAA. He has a strong airline background & excellent awareness of what is needed. Before Trent Water and Hays he was 'Director of Operations' at British Airways. Pehaps BAA will start listening to, and properly serving, their customers!

Mike, Heathrow, UK

Mike Bannister, Heathrow, UK

BAA should never have been privatised and even worse never sold to the Spanish group Ferrovial. If this stops the redevelopment of Terminals 1 and 2, this will be a disaster for the airport. London deserves a world class airport but I don't have high hopes that the problems at Heathrow will be sorted out anytime soon, even with the opening of terminal 5.

James, London, UK

The lack of maintenance at Heathrow is already very apparent and responsible for the many lost bags suffered by customers and airlines at the airport.

The timing of Mr Nelson resignation is interesting as T5 is due to open for business on the 27th March.

Gary , Hove, East Sussex

Aw, have BAA bitten off more than they can chew? Typical big business balls up....

paul, poole, GB

One wonders what the government will do if BAA got into bed with a a sovereign wealth fund to solve its cash crisis. The Uk's airports owned by an islamic state, now there's irony for you.

barry, London, UK

Going throught any BAA airport is a wake up call to getting ripped of UK style. Is it any wonder that brits are leaving there own country.... What are the gov doing about it.....

Sitting on there hands as usual...

John, London, UK

they paid too much and it should not have been privatised.
the uk 's approach is to sell everything of value,borrow,import people and goods, and then wonder why things are hard.
look forward to becoming full time tenants/serfs.
brain dead but educated.
some will escape but most won't.

dave, northwood,

Just shows what a banana republic Britain has become when it has lost effective control of most of the countrys' airports.

james, london, uk

here is a major gateway to the uk,first impressions and all that,owned by a spanish company.
what nonsense.
now that pm brown has become a white knight for NR then why not take back control of major airports,the water companies and the railways and do something sensible,instead of raiding pensions,taxing by the back door, and going back on his word on an eec referendum.

john haydon rowe, javea,

Why did the group not consider the debt before buying BAA, it seems to be very short sighted.

Michael, Cardiff, S glamorgan

I knew it! Having been soaked by BAA airports for every conceivable expense -- including £1 for a tiny plastic bag in which to put a dangerous tiny bottle of aftershave, or £15 for a few minutes parking -- I always suspected the people running the airports must have been desperate.

Pasing through these places is like being held upside down and shaken for every penny in your pocket. It's another reason why if it means dealing with BAA, I'd much rather go by train or not go at all.

iain carstairs, bedford, uk