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Wednesday, 20 October 2021

BBC News

• Heathrow passenger charge to be curbedThe airport has been told it cannot raise its charges for airlines by as much as it would have liked.

Financial Times

• Heathrow's regulation looks a bum deal for passengersAirlines are furious that fees, which are mainly borne by travellers, are set to soar

The Guardian

• Manchester airport's Terminal 2 reopens after reports of suspicious packageTerminal was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon but police investigation found ˜no security threat.

Times Online

• Travel testing to stay until new year, says Grant Shapps [subscription]The news will come as a blow to families planning Christmas breaks, who face paying about £25 per person on tests. Airlines say testing on day two is unnecessary and puts the UK at odds with most other countries.
• Alistair Osborne: Head in the clouds over Heathrow [subscription]Look on the bright side. At least the Civil Aviation Authority has stopped Heathrow’s billionaire owners jacking up passenger charges by 90 per cent. Still, it’s not ruled out “a real increase of around 60 per cent”. What is the CAA? A regulator or some sort of conduit for the flow of funds to China, Qatar and a bunch of minted infrastructure investors?

London Evening Standard

• Grant Shapps: It is ‘imperative’ that aviation recovers in 2022The Cabinet Minister insisted that ‘considerable progress’ has been made this year.