Originally Posted by
KenJohn
Its basically the UK Government to blame for this.
The Government made the decision to sell Heathrow Airport as a one business; not by separate terminals like the rail network. This was bought be Ferrovial as was Gatwick. These was placed in a company called BAA (British Airport Authorities). It was renamed when they had to sell Gatwick.
This is so wrong! Where's Genius1 when you need him?
What the government sold off was called British Airports Authority, when it was privatised it was renamed BAA plc (where BAA officially didn't mean anything).
Rail terminals weren't sold separately, they belong to Network Rail (was Railtrack).
Ferrovial had nothing to do with it at the time, they bought BAA much more recently.
They remained BAA after the sale of Gatwick, it was after the sale of Stansted they became Heathrow Airport Holdings and developed each of their airports with a distinct brand.