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"Reasonable". Alcochete Airport should be operational "within 10 years"
The Government estimates that the Luís de Camões Airport, in the Alcochete Shooting Range, will start operating in 2034, being less optimistic than the Independent Technical Commission (CTI), which pointed to 2030, said today the Minister of Infrastructures.
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"2030 and 2031 we have to tell the Portuguese people clearly that it is not possible. For us, a 10-year period, 2034, will be reasonable", said the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, at a press conference, after an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, in which the Government approved the construction of the new airport for the Lisbon region at the Alcochete Shooting Range.
The CTI pointed out that the first runway in Alcochete should be completed in 2030 and the second one year later, with a total cost of the work of 6,105 million euros.
As for the cost, the Government also considers that the CTI is too optimistic, and estimates that it will be somewhere between the value indicated by the commission led by Rosário Partidário and the eight to nine billion estimated by ANA Aeroportos.
Miguel Pinto Luz guaranteed that the Government is committed to ensuring that the costs of the new airport do not affect the State Budget.
"We believe that it is possible to pay for this investment with the resources released by the concession, until the end of the concession", stressed the minister.
According to the Government, the process will be launched with the airport concessionaire, ANA/Vinci, to assess the chronology for the development of the new airport, "study the technical solution of a flexible model", the accessibility model, detail the total investment required for the new Lisbon airport, "study a financing model without input from the State Budget" and "evaluate the model for transferring traffic from Humberto Delgado Airport, after the new one becomes operational".
On March 11, the CTI published the final report of the strategic environmental assessment of the new airport, maintaining the recommendation of a single solution in Alcochete, the most advantageous, or Vendas Novas, but pointed out that Humberto Delgado + Santarém could be a transitional solution.
The PSD decided to set up an internal working group to analyse the location of the new Lisbon airport, after having agreed with the PS to set up a CTI to carry out the strategic environmental assessment.
The social democratic president, Luís Montenegro, guaranteed, before being elected, that the decision would be taken "in the first days" of government.
Read Also: Airport in Alcochete is the "most problematic" option in environmental terms (Portuguese version)
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