ABRUZZO – «Four months have passed since the farce inauguration of the construction site for the extension of the runway at Abruzzo airport. A staging set up by the regional centre-right on February 5th during the electoral campaign, which saw Marsilio with a shovel in hand in favor of cameras in pure Istituto Luce del Ventennio style.”
Thus begins the note released by the regional secretary of the Abruzzo Democratic Party Daniele Marinelli regarding the issue of the expansion of the Abruzzo Liberi airport. «Once the party was over – continues Marinelli – the saint was fooled: the construction site never started, and the four and a half months trumpeted in the Saga press release to see the work finished are almost finished without a single move. Therefore we will have to wait more time (how much?) to see the completion of the work which – it should be remembered – was financed by the centre-left regional council with the Masterplan way back in 2016. In the meantime we are in the midst of a crisis in arrivals: according to Assaeroporti data, in semester November 2023 – April 2024 there were 19,022 fewer passengers compared to the same period of the previous year. This is due to the cutting of flights to Milan Linate and Turin, but also to the inconvenient times and lower frequencies which have penalized the Pescara airport since last January”.
«The Cna did well to point out that there is a need for a change of pace, also because only 14.4% of tourism in Abruzzo speaks of foreigners: a figure that places us in the last places among the Italian regions for arrivals from abroad. Is it legitimate to expect a different attitude from the Region on this infrastructure or are we witnessing the funeral of the dead airport?”.
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