Allocate the 30 million that the Council has allocated for the privatization of Sardinian airports to the cancellation of the municipal boarding surcharge. This is the proposal of the representatives of FI and Psd'Az, Marco Tedde and Antonio Moro , in order to avoid the Island being left without low-cost flights.
"We reiterate what we have already expressed in recent months - Tedde and Moro underline in a note - that is, before the declarations of Ryanair's commercial director who announces a reduction in flights to and from Sardinian airports, on the urgency of effective and timely interventions by the Region, to avoid the cutting of air connections between Sardinia and the Continent and the announced downsizing of the Alghero airport".
«To the inertia on the launch of the call for direct aid to carriers for the reduction of airport costs (a measure introduced and financed with the green light of the EU in the previous Legislature) is added in these hours an incomprehensible dilatory attitude on the part of the Sardinian Region which, in the face of the position taken even by Assaeroporti and Anci at the national level who hope for a reduction in the babel of airport taxes, calls for assessments regarding "the possible benefits expected on the Island from the cancellation of the tax"».
The benefits, the two representatives continue, «are known and certified: two million more passengers per year, only from the leading European transport carrier, Ryanair. To which are added the increased revenues deriving from VAT revenues and from the turnover of the services and tourist accommodation sector. As demonstrated by the increases in traffic in the Regions (Friuli, Abruzzo and Calabria) that have already invested in eliminating the 6.50 euro tax that leaves nothing to the Municipalities (despite the name) and brings everything to the coffers of the INPS, to support social security management. The measure would also be of extraordinary strategic importance for the future of the Alghero airport that today appears to airlines (it is enough to remember the reasons for Aeroitalia's farewell to Fertilia) as proportionally "too expensive" compared to traffic volumes, due to the high airport costs».
