Promoting financial resilience for major airports

The Department for Transport is seeking feedback on proposed measures for major airports designed to improve financial resilience including:

• a continuity of service plan
• a requirement for the regulator to meet additional switching on conditions for ring fencing

The government announced a package of reforms to promote the financial resilience of major airports in October 2009. This consultation sets out those proposals.

• Promoting financial resilience for major airports: a consultation document (PDF, 114 KB)
• Promoting financial resilience for major airports: a consultation document (DOC, 97 KB)
• Impact assessment for the consultation on ring fencing switching on mechanism (PDF, 495 KB)
• Impact assessment for the consultation on ring fencing switching on mechanism (DOC, 50 KB)
• Impact assessment for the consultation on the continuity of service plan (PDF, 470 KB)
• Impact assessment for the consultation on the continuity of service plan (DOC, 110 KB)

• Regulating air transport: consultation on proposals to update the regulatory framework for aviation, 10 December 2009