(ANSA) – LISBON, JUL 06 – The chaos of these days at European airports has not spared Portugal, in particular Lisbon, which canceled over a hundred flights last weekend and continues to cancel at the rate of thirty per day. For this reason today, at the request of the Social Democratic Party (the opposition), both the president of the board of directors, José Luís Arnaut, and the executive president, Thierry Ligonnière, of Ana, the airport management company, were summoned to Parliament. Portuguese which is part of the French group Vinci.
In addition to the undeniable dysfunctions, which Ligonnière admitted, on the agenda there was also the result of a ranking by the German site AirHelp, which is dedicated to the protection of passengers’ rights and which rejected Lisbon, relegating it to the last placed on a list of 132 airports around the world (while Porto was only a few steps up).
The port of the Portuguese capital has been at the center of political debate for years due to its inadequacy, but also due to the inability shown by various generations of politicians to identify the most suitable site for the construction of a viable alternative both financially and on the environmental one. Just last week the government of socialist António Costa had risked the crisis after a sudden unilateral stance by its Minister of Infrastructure, Pedro Nuno Santos, who announced the construction not of one, but of two airports in Greater Lisbon in the coming years. An initiative that the prime minister, through a note from his office, had denied within a few hours, prompting the opposition to ask for the minister’s head.
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Source: Ansa
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