Two BAA execs tender resignations
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Posted on: August 25th, 2007 by Emily Welch
Talk to anyone about anything to do with London’s Heathrow International Airport and you can expect one or a combination of furrowed brows, guttural growls or perhaps tourette-style cursing. The endless security checks that have recently been questioned as superfluous, the renovations that assure your journey though the terminal will be equated to a walk through a building site are all things to get the blood boiling.
But where to project this anger? Well, it seems two executives of BAA, the organization who runs Heathrow, that have been catching the bullets, stones and tomatoes on everything that’s gone wrong have resigned form their posts.
Both the Director of Corporate Affairs and the head of media relations have turned in their wings over sustained criticism over the treatment of passengers and the logistics of running the airport itself, though no reasons for their departure were formally stated in any media.
Former Director of Corporate Affairs Duncan Bonfield and former head of media relations, Mark Mann’s departures follow the resignation of Tony Douglas stepping down as chief executive of Heathrow after nine years of service.
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Blogman
I think they will appoint two Americans to replace them just like the attempts by the London Underground to do the same some years ago. The Underground’s problem was a bit less urgent, as they already had an excellent system in place but Heathrow is a bigger, more pressing matter.
I think the reason for them not stating reasons for their departure says it all. The phrase “Out of one’s depth” comes to mind.
Gazza
The London Underground was built 100 years ago using American gangster money. Check the history.
Funny that a century on, the same could save Heathrow.
i don’t mean gangster cash, unless George W Bush takes contral.