Government met its objective of achieving contributions from each stakeholder

2.18 The Department and the Treasury did not adopt an objective of requiring broadly equivalent contributions from each of the participants. Given the differing means of the parties, with members of the Airline Group being afflicted by the same downturn in aviation that had damaged NATS, absolute equality was probably not achievable, and could have prejudiced achievement of a deal. But the Department recognised that a visible process of "give and take" in which there were contributions by all participants would be important to reaching a solution that each key player would support. For example, the Civil Aviation Authority demanded concessions from the banks and the shareholders as a condition of relaxing the price caps. A summary of the contributions made by all parties is at Figure 10.