BA awaits court blessing on settlement for six-year dispute

James Phillips
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The High Court must bless a settlement between British Airways (BA) and the trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) to achieve certainty and bring to an end the acrimonious six-year dispute, it has been told.

The agreement is "manifestly in the interests of the scheme as a whole", the court heard yesterday (31 October) as BA and the APS trustees sought to ward off concerns that some members might be dis...

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