Eleven years after its closure, the Tortolì airport reopens, where small general aviation airplanes return to fly from May up to a maximum of 12 seats.
This morning the last inspection by the ENAC inspectors, who gave the authorization for the reopening of the airport, which will actually receive the certification within a couple of weeks.
A first step towards the reopening of the airport also for civil aviation which will be able to host tourist charters of 100 seats, for whose authorization the provincial industrial consortium Ogliastra, sole shareholder of AliArbatax (company that owns the airport structure), has already started the application and completed the work.
"We are enormously satisfied - said the president of the Industrial Consortium Franco Ammendola . - We rely on a large clientele in the Mediterranean and beyond, where thousands of owners of small aircraft who sometimes, during the summer, do not know where to land in Sardinia the other airports on the island are often full. We want to play the card of the landscape, of the absence of wind of the wild land in order to entice this rich clientele to come to our hotels, restaurants, campsites ".
The Ogliastra airport operated from 1993 to 2011, then closed. And now we want to make up for lost time: “We have already completed the work in anticipation of the request for authorization for civil aviation flights up to one hundred seats, a goal that we hope to achieve by the summer of 2023 ”, explained Ammendola.
In the meantime, the Industrial Consortium has transformed the AliArbatax company from Spa into an Srl with the task of managing the airport activity from the very first flights.
(Unioneonline / L)
