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Aug 30 2007, Rahul Bhandari

BAA, the main operator of Britain’s airports, is planning to cut about 2,000 jobs and aiming to sell one or more of its seven UK airports.

The firm, which was bought by Spanish firm Ferrovial last year, to streamline the services, company...

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Passengers wait at Stansted Airport, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) from central London, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Environmental activists broke into a secure area of Stansted airport Monday, chaining themselves to each other and barricading themselves...