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Without the Italian smaller airports - Unioncamere supports - diseguaglianze between rich and poor regions would increase
a study evidences the risks connected with the application of the new lines EU on the zero setting of the aids publics for the management of the ports of call
February 19, 2014
According to Unioncamere, the Association of Italian Chambers of Commerce, the application of the new lines of the European Union on the zero setting of the aids publics for the management of the airport ports of call places to risk the survival of the Italian smaller airports with inferior traffic to two million passengers and this less involves the risk of a displacement of wealth from the areas developed those richest ones, emphasizing the economic and social difference already strongly existing in Italy.
Unioncamere has specified that, considering the tourist attrattività, the closing of these airports would put to risk at least part of the amount of entrances deriving from the expense of tourism in arrival, pairs to beyond 1,45 billion euros. A study cured for Unioncamere from Uniontrasporti-Iccsai, that it is introduced today to Rome in occasion of the convention "Airports, rediscovered" organized in collaboration with the magazine "Head Horn", it specifies that such expense is estimable in beyond 500 million euros for the single airports with inferior traffic to a million passengers year. The percentage of foreign tourists that uses the airport in order to approach Italy - explains the study - it is pairs to about 30%. but for some peripheral provinces as Dubrovnik, Trapani, Taranto, or difficultly approachable with other modalities of transport, as Sienna and Perugia, the quota is very more meaningful. To Trapani and Dubrovnik, for example, it exceeds 80%, to Taranto 70%, Sienna and Perugia grazes 50%.
The analysis of Uniontrasporti-Iccsai evidences as the choices that the EU gets ready to complete threatens the survival of the overwhelming majority of the Italian airports and society of management that in Italy, as in great part of the European Countries (in the study is evidenced the case of Germany), cannot be in balance without a public aid. Aid - the study observes - justified in Italy from the requirement primary often also to return approachable territories and areas of the Country that for orography and absence of infrastructures can only confide on the airport in order to develop to economy and civil society.
The study famous as the risk of closing of the smaller airports as a result of the possible introduction to European level of restrictive measures in topic of subsidies publics, besides shown how much from the national plan of the airports, it often comes derubricato as effect and defect of the contrast of the thousand bell towers typical Italian. In reality, but - the analysis observes - in Europe, about two third party of the airports with line traffic it manages inferior volumes to the million passengers year: a diffused phenomenon, therefore, and not only Italian. In Italy they are the 23 airports opened to the commercial traffic that they enliven less than a million than fleeting year, the half of those existing. Analogous the situation of Germany (that it has 17 airports with less than million than fleeting and 18 with advanced traffic) and of Spain (22 "minors" and 24 advanced size). Closing in Europe the smaller airports - the study emphasizes - about 4,5 million people they would endure increases of mean times of travel in order to reach the remainder of the continent of beyond 20%. In Italy, the zero setting of the flights in departure and arrival in the 23 structures with less than million than fleeting ones would provoke an increase of the costs for the user estimated in 21,5 million euros in the optimistic hypothesis that the closing of the connections of line on every port of call does not modify habits of flight of the passengers but it involves only an increase of the travel distance. The effectiveness of the new addresses would create large problems of mobility on all the adriatic corridor and in "the geographically more peripheral" regions, for example Calabria and Sicily.
"We find ourselves of forehead - it has found the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello - to a scene of changes of our airport system that will produce sensitive effects for the enterprises. For how much it is important to consider the aspect of the profit of the existing structures, if to the smaller airports the current European and Italian design risks to strongly being penalizing as it neglects the effects produced from the social point of view - it put up constraints to the economic freedom, to mobility of the people, the occupational resumption - and environmental. They are sure that the camerale system, thanks to its capillarity and constant interaction with the local economies - it has added Dardanello - it will be able to continue to give own contribution with proposals that contemplate and put to factor common the several requirements of the territories, as we have already had a chance for make in occasion of the consultation on the proposal of guidelines EU on the aids of State to the airports and the airlines that has held to september 2013".
In recent days Assaeroporti, the association of the Italian societies of airport management, has announced the consuntivo of the data of traffic enlivened in the 38 airports which monitored from the association in 2013, year in which they are journeyed beyond 144 million passengers (- 1.9% on the 2012) and total of tons enlivened in the year pairs to 907.485 (+1.5%) ( on 3 February 2014).
Statistical data on the Italian airport traffic (Fonte: Assaeroporti)
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According to Unioncamere, the Association of Italian Chambers of Commerce, the application of the new lines of the European Union on the zero setting of the aids publics for the management of the airport ports of call places to risk the survival of the Italian smaller airports with inferior traffic to two million passengers and this less involves the risk of a displacement of wealth from the areas developed those richest ones, emphasizing the economic and social difference already strongly existing in Italy.
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