For six months, Allan Leighton and his team at Consignia held detailed talks with Graham Corbett, the Postcomm regulator, about price rises and service improvements. Yet the gulf between what Mr Leighton wanted and what Mr Corbett would offer only emerged on Tuesday night -less than 48 hours before publication of an important document about Consignia’s future.
Read MorePatricia Hewitt is preparing to take Consignia’s side in an increasingly angry row over prices between the mail operator and the postal regulator. The two sides traded accusations yesterday of recklessness, regulatory insanity and sabre-rattling.
Read MoreOUT-OF-GAUGE joint venture Air Foyle/Heavy Lift is ready to unleash the giant AN-225 freighter into the commercial market. Capable of lifting 250 tonnes, the record-breaking freighter joins its AN-124 brother in the company’s fleet.
Meanwhile, confirmation has been received from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) of the AN-225’s record-breaking test flight in September 2001
Postal unions and Post Office management warned yesterday that industry regulator Postcomm is about to plunge the service into “crisis” with a raft of “restrictive and damaging” proposals.
Read MoreLeeds based Macfarlane Transport has contract-hired 43 curtainsiders from Hill Hire in a deal valued at more than £1m.
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