29 NOVEMBER 2010

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Article from BTNews 29 NOVEMBER 2010

Lord Bishop

Sir Michael Bishop has been elevated to the House of Lords and will sit on the Conservative benches. 

A keen advocate of Heathrow it remains to be seen whether he will mention when the opportunity arises that the present Government has overturned the results of an expensive and time consuming public enquiry regarding the third runway.

Lord Bishop (his title is yet to be announced) is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company which he personally sponsors.  A product of Mill Hill School in North London he was the senior partner in a management buyout of British Midland Airways in 1978.  Bishop sold his majority shareholding to Lufthansa in 2009, retiring from the company.  He led the campaign which eventually became ‘Open Skies', the opening up of the North Atlantic to airline competition.  With Bishop it was the winning rather than the taking part.  Bmi did not take up the opportunities offered by the new treaty. www.guardian.co.uk/media

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