The shareholder of TAP David Neeleman returned in the claim the need to move forward with an airport in Montijo so that the TAP can grow. Defended even though the air base begins to be used in the meantime as a temporary space, in particular to park aircraft, and that there is a need is to function as the airport in the summer of 2018.
[I Have done] a lot of pressure on the Air Force, the Government and the ANA [Airports] to sit down at the table and solve all of this. Have to mount something temporary there for us to open – not this summer – in the summer that comes [2018 already the airport of Montijo]“.
Neeleman refers to the constraints to the growth of the TAP by the lack of space in Lisbon. the “we Have a lot of aircraft parked in Lisbon that can be changed there. You have the space. It is not only to use the track”, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores.
When asked whether the TAP intended to use the Montijo to park planes, the responsible said to be “the talk of the Eurotlantic”.
Has many aircraft there parked. If you want to park more than one day have to maybe change to the Montijo. If not you can use the space [for parking] that is being used by the companies that are bringing people [tourists] to Portugal. No one wants that. Should I change the aircraft that are not being used and leave the airport for anyone who is using it to bring people in”.
Then, before an audience packed with hoteliers, David Neeleman came back to remember that 80% of the tourists who arrive in the country come through the air and you can’t be open hotels – as expected already – and have an “airport closed”. The sector applauded, according to the Lusa news agency.
And low-cost? “Those who want to grow will have to go”
now about the possibility of the companies low-cost (low-cost) they refuse to move to the Montijo, in particular on routes that compete with the TAP, if your company is not also responsible he noted that those who “want to grow will have to go there”.
you Can say that you do not want to go there, but to grow just so. I think that Ryanair do not have problems with a secondary airport. I don’t know of easyJet, but Ryanair will. The Montijo is a good location, is near to Lisbon”.
Already on 10 November, on the occasion of the Web Summit, in Lisbon, the shareholder of TAP had complained of the lack of space at the airport in Lisbon, limiting the growth of the carrier, and called on the Government to quickly resolve the problem, suggesting to transfer the budget to the Montijo.
David Neeleman stressed that want to open more routes, “go back to Toronto and to Montreal (Canada)”, to get to more secondary cities in the United States, in the northeast of Brazil and in Africa, but the airport must grow too.
we can’t grow if we say that it is limited, we have to open another airport. The Montijo is there, we can’t wait three years for this to happen, the budget can go down there and we were here [at the airport Humberto Delgado], but it has to happen faster than is being done.”
he also said that “the country needs economic development through tourism, which represents 10 to 15% of GDP.
the Regulator receives documents this week
The shareholder of TAP guaranteed to Lusa that the consortium will submit this week to the documentation that the National Authority of Civil Aviation, the regulator, has asked the company to identify confidential information prior to issuing the opinion on the privatization.
THE FAA already has everything that she asked us. Is always asking us things, but yes – if we have not answered already – I know you’ll respond yet this week.”
On the 28th of October, the FAA has confirmed that it has asked the TAP to identify information of a sensitive nature before issuing an opinion on the sale of the airline to the consortium Atlantic Gateway.
“THE FAA reports that it was prompted to TAP, SGPS, SA, which is communicated to this authority within 15 working days of the notification made on the present date, what information is of confidential nature and non-confidential contained in the notification and later requirements”, as provided for in the law that regulates the access to administrative documents, said at the time, official source of the FAA to Lusa, confirming a story advanced by the Business Journal.
This opinion to which the FAA asks for this clarification, so as to "safeguard the secret of the business", says respect to the sale of 61% of TAP in 2015 to the consortium of Humberto Pedrosa and David Neeleman (Atlantic Gateway).
however, it is now in course another process that reverses partially the business, after the agreement of purchase and sale of shares of TAP signed between the consortium and the Government of António Costa, and that allows the State to stay with 50% of the air carrier.
in This model, the consortium Atlantic Gateway is with 45% of TAP, and can reach up to 50% with the purchase of 5% of the share capital that will be however placed to the disposal of the workers.
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