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CCIPD defends new process of privatization of Azores Airlines
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ponta Delgada (CCIPD), in the Azores, today defended the immediate interruption of the privatization of Azores Airlines and the opening of a new process that allows for "incorporating new information" and "correcting setbacks".
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In a statement, the business association of the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria argues that "the current process should be immediately interrupted and a new process should be started, with the speed that the time targets imposed by the European Commission advise".
The CCIPD stresses that it "has been following, with the utmost attention, the entire privatization process" of Azores Airlines, emphasizing the importance of the public company for the region, "both for the services it provides and for the contingencies that it has already generated and that it may still generate for the public budget".
"For many years now, the CCIPD has been intervening, arguing that a sensible policy should be outlined for the accessibility of the Azores without the uncontrolled impoverishment of the public budget, supported by all Azoreans, by each island, including those where the CCIPD members operate, understanding the space where almost 70% of all the economic activity of the Azores takes place, for the gains and for the burdens that are inherent to them", the note reads.
For the business association, it is necessary to start a new privatization process for Azores Airlines, which is responsible for the connections with the outside of the archipelago, which allows "new and positive information to be incorporated" and "to correct the difficulties of the current tender that can be avoided, not preventing the current competitors from presenting themselves again, improving their responses".
The board of directors of the SATA Group, which has resigned, has already sent its opinion on the privatization process of Azores Airlines to the Regional Government, expressing "reservations about the NewTour MS Aviation consortium and about the limitations of the competitor".
The jury of the tender, led by economist Augusto Mateus, maintained the decision to accept only one competitor in the final report, but admitted reservations about the capacity of the Newtour MS Aviation consortium to ensure the viability of the company.
Last week, the regional secretary for Mobility, Berta Cabral, said that "the Government Council will decide and it will be soon".
The SATA Group also holds SATA Air Açores for the connections between the islands of the Azores.
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