Capital Investment Plan 2009 - Heathrow Airport

a working level. In March 2009, following a period of joint working between HAL and
the airline community and formal consultation by the CAA, the CAA published the final
definitions of the trigger projects.
3.10.2 Trigger Completion
3.10.2.1 Process
The CAA has set out that the process for testing whether a trigger has been met will be
as follows:
1. the airport will send certification of completed works to the CAA for confirmation of
successful performance against the triggered project milestone(s); and
2. the CAA will then consult the airline community (by means of a letter to the AOC)
and investigate if any concerns are raised.
In practice the detailed process as implemented by HAL and the airline community is as
follows;
• HAL and relevant airline community representatives meet on site and formally record
the completion of the project / project element including any agreed outstanding
items.
• HAL write to the CAA providing copies of the relevant documentation from the site
meeting. (Point 1 above)
• The CAA then write to the Heathrow AOC to request comment on the completion,
or otherwise, of the trigger. (Point 2 above)
• The AOC write to the CAA to comment on the completion.
3.10.2.2 Trigger Status
The current status of the capital investment trigger projects is that 2 projects have been
delivered on time and agreed by the CAA. These are the ‘T4 New CIP Lounge –
Completion of Shell and Core For Fit Out’ and the ‘T1 Completion of bmi Nose Building
Facility’. As a result, the maximum amount of aeronautical charges at risk has reduced
to £268 million (in 2007/08 prices).
Details of the status of all the capital investment trigger projects, as at February 2009
month end, is set out in Appendix R: Time Schedules.
3.10.2.3 Change Control
As explained earlier, at the time of preparing this document the final trigger definitions
only recently been published by the CAA. Due to changes since the start of the
governance, HAL has a number of “pending” changes that it may seek through the
CAA’s trigger change control process. HAL will now commence the process in respect of
these changes as the final definitions have been published. The CAA’s change control
process is outlined in Appendix B: Trigger Change Control. HAL and the airline
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a working level process to define how they will work
together to bring any proposed changes to triggers before the CAA after a period of
consultation.
While the concept of triggers was introduced in Q4, the percentage of the capital
investment plan covered by the triggers in Q5 is significantly greater and is applied to a
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The process will be presented to the JST meeting scheduled for 11 th May 2009 for final
agreement.
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