The Generalitat requests an urgent meeting with the Government and offers its staff to keep El Altet open | Radio Alicante | Present

The Minister of Infrastructure, Arcadi Spain, has sent a letter to the Ministry of Health asking for a meeting immediate not to close the Alicante-Elche airport, and also that of Valencia, while the state of alarm lasts.

The central government has decided to establish only five entry points across the country for foreign flights, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Malaga, Palma de Mallorca and the Canary Islands, leaving out El Altet and Manises.

The Generalitat recalls that these are key airports for tourism, especially the Alicante. And the provincial economy, they point out, nor can be allowed to stop receiving flights until June 15. Thus, the Ministry Infrastructure will offer in that meeting all your staff available to keep airports open Valencians.

Criticisms of the employer’s association, Provincial Council and City Council

The businessmen of the province also do not agree with this temporary closure of the airport. From CEV Alicante, they request the intermediation of the regional president Ximo Puig in defense of the provincial economy and as the only possible way of solution “to the absolute contempt that the province and the Valencian Community suffer from the Ministry of Transport and the Government of Spain.”

For its part, UEPAL considers “an attack on the province’s economy” and one of its main sectors, tourism, closure to international flights. “This it’s the coup de grace what was missing to destroy Alicante“, has sentenced its president, Juan José Sellés, in a statement. Considered” inadmissible “that the country’s fifth airport, which had more than 15 million passengers last year,” is not among the government’s priorities. “

And from the Provincial Council and the Alicante City Council they also criticize this decision. The provincial president, the popular Carlos Mazón, believes that “they are pushing Alicante to the limit” with a decision that he considers “arbitrary”. “We do not know if sanitary means are lacking in the Alicante terminal and, if it is the case, we are willing to put them available to the airport “, said Mazón, who indicated that they have communicated this possibility to the Generalitat, as well as the discomfort of the tourism sector in the province.

Who has referred to this matter in the City Council has been the vice mayor and mayor of Tourism, Mari Carmen Sánchez. He regrets that it was precisely a Valencian minister, referring to the head of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, the one who has excluded the airport from Alicante. “It is outrageous that we have been belittled in this way and it is even less understandable when the person responsible for making this decision, who He is Valencian, he is supposed to know our tourist reality, the importance of El Altet and the damage it does to our tourism sector, “he criticized in a statement.

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