Trapani, Ryanair threatens to leave. Airgest: “Fault of four municipalities”

A month ago the press conference in Palermo with the governor Nello Musumeci where the relaunch of Trapani airport and the goal of “one million passengers”, today the alarm of the president of Airgest who manages the Birgi airport, Salvatore Ombra: “The agreement with Ryanair is at risk because of the municipalities – announces a press release – Dublin threatens to step back due to the debt of 200 thousand euros of the previous 2014-2017 co-marketing, not paid by Pantelleria, Castelvetrano, Campobello di Mazara and Poggioreale “.

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The tone of the note is very harsh: “The incessant march of the Vincenzo Florio airport in Trapani Birgi towards the rise in the number of passengers risks a new stop. This time it is not Covid that jeopardizes the efforts made in a year by the Sicilian Region , majority shareholder, and by the management of Airgest, the management company, but the default of some Trapani municipalities still owing to Ryanair, of 200 thousand euros of the previous 2014-2017 co-marketing agreement “. All this while the CEO of the company Eddie Wilson landed a few days ago at the “Falcone e Borsellino” in Palermo to meet the top management of Gesap. Wilson is the “number 2” of low cost after the group CEO Michael O’Leary.

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“I received a call from the Ryanair representative – said the president of Airgest, Salvatore Ombra – who complained that he had not yet received the balance of the previous debt, promised several times and always postponed. This has made the airline stiff enough to put the continuation of his activities on Trapani Birgi is in doubt. I cannot fail to express my deepest disappointment – concluded Ombra – for those who, for so little, risk undermining the commitment of the Region and ours. The current routes and a ban for three years of activity at risk “

And the note concludes: “From the resumption by Salvatore Ombra of the presidency of the management company of the Vincenzo Florio airport in Trapani Birgi, Ryanair, to which the airport owes the golden moment of its recent history with approximately two million passengers reached, was the subject of a close courtship by the current management to bring the Dublin company back to invest in the site, recovering the confidence of the most famous low cost. In exchange for the balance of a part of the debt, the routes operated were confirmed and expanded Ryanair on Trapani which currently are Bergamo, Pisa, Bologna, Karlsruhe Baden Baden. Furthermore, Ryanair has just won the tender, financed with regional funds, for another three years of intense activity “.

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