RNS Number:1432C
Alpha Airports Group PLC
17 April 2001

                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

      ALPHA AIRPORTS GROUP PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

      SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

      SEE LETTER BELOW

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

      SEE LETTER BELOW

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

      2,741,427

6)   (1.61%) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

      ORDINARY SHARES OF 10 PENCE EACH

10)  Date of transaction

      12 APRIL 2001

11)  Date company informed

       12 APRIL 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification


        17,841,055       
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

        10.46%

14)  Any additional information

         SEE LETTER BELOW

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

         J DEEGAN (020) 8580 3231

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ..17 April 2001 - J Deegan - Company Secretary


Letter to Alpha Airports Group plc
Dated: 12 April 2001


10p ORDINARY SHARES ("SHARES")

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 17,841,055 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are:

(i)  1,233,739 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our
     wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited         
     (Schroder Nominees).

(ii) 14,807,316 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by another
     wholly-owned subsidiary, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and          
     registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominee and.

(iii)1,800,000 shares registered or to be registered in the name of Nortrust    
     Nominees Limited.

A wholly-owned subsidiary, Schroder Investment Management North America Limited
(SIMNA Ltd),  is managing on a discretionary basis (a) portfolio(s) holding  a
further  400,000  shares,  while  an  affiliated  company,  Schroder Investment
Management North America Inc (SIMNA Inc), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a
similar basis holding a further 200,000 shares. These shares share registered or
to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes, is managing 203,345 shares in (a)
portfolio(s) on a passive (index tracker) basis for clients  under investment
management agreements. These shares are registered or to be registered in the
name of Chase Nominees Limited.

We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 18,644,400 shares, representing  some
10.930 % of the total number of shares in issue, namely 170,576,555.

This notification is made, to you:

(a) in respect of our interest as investment managers and also by virtue of
    the fact that we are the parent company of SIMNA and SUTL.

(b) on behalf of SIMNA Inc, Schroder Hermes and SUTL in relation to the
    interests they are treated as having respectively under the Companies
    Act 1985 (the Act), and

(c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as
    having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue
    of its ownership of SIMNA Inc and ourselves.

We shall be grateful if you will kindly let us have a copy of your notification 
to the Stock Exchange and if you will also confirm the total number of shares
currently in issue.

From:  Schroders Investment Management



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