Airport Market Power Assessment
On this page we publish all relevant documents relating to the market power assessments for Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.
To inform the way in which the CAA will approach the regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted from April 2014 - Q6, the CAA is undertaking market power assessments of these three airports. The work started in May 2011. The CAA is currently consulting on its 'Minded To' determination for Stansted. The CAA published summaries of its "Minded To" determinations for Gatwick and Heathrow in April 2013, and will publish the full documents for consultation at the end of May.
Summary of Heathrow Market Power Assessment - April 2013
Summary of Gatwick Market Power Assessment - April 2013
Consultation on Stansted Market Power Assessment - January 2013
Individual documents of the CAA's "Minded To" consultation on market power for Stansted. The consultation is about whether the airport should be subject to economic regulation. Those wishing to respond to this consultation should do so in writing no later than 17:00 on 24 May 2013. Responses should be emailed to Barbara Perata-Smith.
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted - Market Power Assessments - Summary - January 2012
Individual documents of the CAA's Initial Views on airport market power - February 2012
Responses to Initial views
- Gatwick Airport - letter - April 2012,
- Gatwick Airport - submission - April 2012
- Heathrow Airport - March 2012
- Ryanair - March 2012
- Stansted Airport - April 2012
- David Starkie - March 2012
- Virgin - March 2012
To prepare for this work, the CAA previously developed guidance on how the CAA expects to undertake such market power assessments in the airport sector
- Market power assessment guidelines for airports - April 2011
- Further working papers and background material supporting the development of the guidance, under the heading "Preparing for a more competitive airport sector/Competition Guidelines"
- Airport market power assessment - Treatment of confidential information - 1 August 2011
Initial call for evidence
- CAA letter to stakeholders
- Annex - 27 May 2011
Working papers
- UK Airports Market - general context - September 2011
- Ryanair response - October 2011
- Catchment area analysis working paper - October 2011
- Passengers' airport preferences - results from the CAA Passenger Survey - November 2011
Stakeholder seminar - 15 November 2011
Stakeholder Submission
- David Starkie submission - 16 November 2011
Frontier Economic report commissioned by Easyjet - 17 November 2011
- Frontier Economic report - presentation slides - 7 December 2011
David Starkie response to the Frontier Economic presentation - 12 December 2011
- Ryanair letter - 23 November 2011
- Ryanair letter - 25 November 2011
- RBB Economics report commissioned by Ryanair - 29 November 2011
- Easyjet submission - 30 November 2011
- Heathrow AOC - 2 December 2011
- Gatwick Airport submission - 5 December 2011
- BAA submission - 5 December 2011
- FTI Consulting study commissioned by Gatwick - 7 December 2011
- Gatwick letter and annex on Frontier and RBB reports - 14 December 2011
Other evidence
The CAA's calculation model underlying its illustration of LRIC in the context of the Stansted Q5 price control review - "Price control review - consultation on the framework and options for the economic regulation of Stansted Airport" January 2008, Table 10-1 - April 2011
