Andalucía warns of potential airport closures if AENA is privatised
Monday, June 23, 2014 @ 3:12 PM
TOURISM authorities in the southern region of Andalucía have warned that airports could close down if the public sector governing body AENA is privatised.
Department head Rafael Rodríguez says it would be 'hard' for some of the region's terminals to be considered 'economically viable' if they were in the hands of a private company, and that this could lead to their disappearance.
Rodríguez has not stated which airports might become casualties of the PP's 'neo-liberal obsession' with privatising hitherto State-run organisations, but says those with lower passenger numbers or which need heavy investment in infrastructure could be at risk as they would not be profitable for a company seeking to make money.
Minister of public works Ana Pastor has told Spain's 17 federal governments that the continued presence of existing airports would be 'guaranteed for a certain length of time'.
But Rodríguez says these words are 'merely placing a gauze pad on an open wound' which, over time when the 'pad is removed', would lead to 'the wound worsening and the limb having to be amputated'.
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