Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 22:55:08 GMT -5
Starting tomorrow, Monday, Barcelona will host the annual summit of the Airports Council International (ACI), a meeting in which more than 700 companies will participate and where 2,000 airports from 140 countries will be represented to address the situation and challenges of the sector. Aena acts as host in this edition, and its president, Maurici Lucena, has chosen the Catalan capital to host this meeting, the most important in the airport industry worldwide. A way, he says, to "recognize the international projection of Barcelona, its importance, its cosmopolitanism and also to reinforce Aena's commitment to the city and its airport", whose future he analyzes in conversation with the avant-garde . El Prat has not yet reached pre-pandemic passenger numbers, while other airports, such as Palma or Málaga, are already above, and Barajas, although it is also still below, is closer. Because? Barcelona, like Madrid, is at a level of around 97% compared to 2019, which was an absolute record year.
He fourth busiest airport in the EU and Barcelona the fifth, and in airports of this size the recovery is a little behind worldwide in relation to that of tourist airports, because they are more sophisticated airports, with a Russia Mobile Number List more varied offer. composition of their traffic and that cover a broader geography. The war in Ukraine, the late post-covid opening of China and the slower reactivation of international connections themselves affect this type of airports. That said, when we compare Barcelona with airports of the same size in the rest of the world, we see that it is ahead in its recovery and, therefore, it will take a few months to return to normal. I consider Barcelona and Madrid recovered. In recent months, several relevant decisions have coincided that attempt to reduce air traffic.
One is the Amsterdam airport, which is trying to cut its capacity and has clashed with the airlines; and another is that of the French Government, which has prohibited short flights with alternative trains. We are also in a climate emergency situation and, in Spain, in a severe drought. Doesn't the El Prat expansion proposal clash with this? The decisions of France or Amsterdam draw attention, but the truth is that air traffic worldwide is going to increase significantly for demographic and economic reasons. In the case of Barcelona airport, some of the most vehement positions against expansion defend the thesis of economic decline. This is something very dangerous because without economic growth it will be impossible to produce the gigantic investments that the world economy needs to decarbonize activity with new technologies.
He fourth busiest airport in the EU and Barcelona the fifth, and in airports of this size the recovery is a little behind worldwide in relation to that of tourist airports, because they are more sophisticated airports, with a Russia Mobile Number List more varied offer. composition of their traffic and that cover a broader geography. The war in Ukraine, the late post-covid opening of China and the slower reactivation of international connections themselves affect this type of airports. That said, when we compare Barcelona with airports of the same size in the rest of the world, we see that it is ahead in its recovery and, therefore, it will take a few months to return to normal. I consider Barcelona and Madrid recovered. In recent months, several relevant decisions have coincided that attempt to reduce air traffic.
One is the Amsterdam airport, which is trying to cut its capacity and has clashed with the airlines; and another is that of the French Government, which has prohibited short flights with alternative trains. We are also in a climate emergency situation and, in Spain, in a severe drought. Doesn't the El Prat expansion proposal clash with this? The decisions of France or Amsterdam draw attention, but the truth is that air traffic worldwide is going to increase significantly for demographic and economic reasons. In the case of Barcelona airport, some of the most vehement positions against expansion defend the thesis of economic decline. This is something very dangerous because without economic growth it will be impossible to produce the gigantic investments that the world economy needs to decarbonize activity with new technologies.