"After Friuli Venezia Giulia and Calabria, the Abruzzo Region has also decided to abolish the municipal surcharge on passenger boarding fees. Last July, Fratelli d'Italia filed a national bill so that the tax no longer applies in the three Sardinian airports. The signal coming from these Regions is clear: if Sardinia does not decide soon, it risks losing an important opportunity, with inevitable negative repercussions on transport and tourism. We cannot deal exclusively with territorial continuity ."
Paolo Truzzu, leader of the FdI group in the Regional Council, said this. "It is important to reiterate that the abolition of this airport tax, resulting in a reduction in the cost borne by the air carrier and, therefore, the cost of the ticket, would represent a decisive step both in the application of the fundamental right of Sardinians to mobility and in the socioeconomic development of the Island, allowing companies to increase connections from Sardinian airports to the main Italian and European cities - adds the former mayor of Cagliari - Unfortunately, for too many months starting from November, connections from the Island have decreased, creating serious difficulties of movement for both Sardinians and tourists . Sardinia could suffer, to the advantage of the more far-sighted regions, the decrease in investments, and therefore of routes and jobs, by low-cost companies, with conceivable damage to our competitiveness also in the tourism market".
"Furthermore, this decision would not represent an additional cost for the regional budget, but rather a concrete investment, with the hypothesis of tying the increased revenues of this measure in the transport sector ", explains the FdI group leader who highlights how in Friuli Venezia Giulia, "in Trieste, Ryanair has opened a base with the creation of 600 new jobs, has declared an investment of 100 million dollars for a new aircraft and created 7 new routes. In Calabria, Ryanair has added two aircraft (an investment of 200 million dollars) and 15 routes with a 50% growth in the airports of Lamezia Terme, Reggio Calabria and Crotone, for over 1,200 jobs. In Abruzzo: in Pescara, Ryanair has inserted a new aircraft, announced five new routes and an investment of 100 million dollars, guaranteeing a 30% increase in traffic".
(Online Union)
