British Airways agrees settlement with APS trustees in long-running dispute over increases

James Phillips
clock • 4 min read

Members of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) are set to receive boosts to their pensions after long-running litigation between the scheme's trustees and British Airways (BA) has ended.

A settlement has been reached which will see the scheme gradually return to awarding increases to pensions in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI). Nearly six years after litigation began, BA...

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