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Small correction.

The APS was closed to new members, not in 2003, but on 1 April 1984. Employees were at the time offered large cash inducements (which would be illegal today) of typically a whole year's pay to transfer out of APS into the inferior New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) with a promise from Lord Marshall that employees who remained in APS would receive pension protected by unlimited increases in line with the Cost of Living Index. The Cost of Living Index in 1984 meant the RPI - the terms were used interchangeably in pay negotiations. The CPI was not invented until 1996.