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Chapter 4 Strain and Stress

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This chapter records increasing friction under Bermuda 2 in its second decade as both governments try to draw back from the detailed oversight of their aviation industries. The Heathrow User Charges Dispute, arising from the charging policies pursued by the newly privatised BAA (formerly British Airports Authority), is resolved through a rare use of the formal arbitration procedure. Despite this high-profile disagreement, further waves of negotiation continue to open up additional opportunities, particularly for access to UK regional airports, but the demise of Pan Am and the weakening of TWA as a consequence of US deregulation policies provokes a major row, in the Heathrow Succession negotiations, when the UK demands and wins massive concessions as the price for changing the agreement to allow American and United to take their place.

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  1. 1.

    See also Witten (1995).

  2. 2.

    Cmnd 9542, (HMSO, London), 5 June 1985.

  3. 3.

    Interview, June 2010.

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    Cm 2711 (HMSO, London) December 1994.

  5. 5.

    See Part II—Text of Agreement, Annex 1—Route Schedules, Section 1, Route 1 and Section 3, Route 1.

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    Manchester Airport evidence to the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Sub-Committee of the House of Commons, April 2000.

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    Interview, 2 June 2010.

  8. 8.

    This and all the other Treaty amendments listed below can be found in the Treaty text at Part II.

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    Press Release, ELFAA (European Low Fares Airlines Association), 4 September 2014.

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Stevens, H. (2018). Chapter 4 Strain and Stress. In: The Life and Death of a Treaty . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65705-9_4

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