GATWICK

[Jox]

Bit of drift going on here chaps but back to the rumour, here's one for you.

News whispered in my shell intimates that any consortium will have a majority made up from the construction company Laing O'Rourke.

Taking over an operation the size of LGW with all the immediate compliance measures would need a steady hand at the helm.

A search of Mr Google would appear to add a little weight with the former managing director of LHR, one Mr Tony Douglas who left BAA to take over as the Chief Operating Officer of the construction giant in a prime seat, assisted by the recently departed Heathrow MD Mark Bullock who has only just joined Laing O'Rourke.

Now if Donna Boote, Mr Bullock’s significant other and a recent departee from the role of security manager at LHR were to be employed by the new operating company, well I never.

If it smells like smoke and looks like smoke - it might just be smoke !

I'm back off to Irish Paddy's betting site to have a few quid on this one.

You heard it on PPRuNe first