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1985 newspaper clipping about £35m deal settlement for Laker Airways creditors following airline collapse
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1985 newspaper clipping about £35m deal settlement for Laker Airways creditors following airline collapse

A 1985 newspaper article reporting that British Airways privatisation would proceed after other airlines agreed to pay £48 million to Laker Airways creditors. The settlement ended the billion-dollar court action against them following Sir Freddie Laker's airline collapse in 1982.

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