Fiumicino, 73% of inhabitants approve of the plan to build the fourth runway

42% of those interviewed in the research,' adds Lorenzo Pregliasco, director of Youtrend, 'indicate an improvement of the airport in the last five years. There is a positive assessment of the expansion project'. For 45%, the airport has remained the same and only 4% indicate that it has worsened.

The question of what the relationship between the airport and the local community is today paints an overall favourable picture.

The presence of the airport is assessed positively in particular on the employment and job front (by almost three quarters of the respondents) and on the quality of life (64% positive evaluations). Only 13% assess the effect on the quality of life negatively and only 8% estimate a negative impact on employment and work.

Overall, explains the Youtrend survey, 'the scenario that emerges is that of a community that recognises the value of the airport and looks to its development as a lever for growth, employment and modernisation. A basis of trust that allows the next phase of the project to be approached as an opportunity to further strengthen the link between infrastructure, territory and citizens'.

The Sustainable Development Plan defined by Enac and Aeroporti di Roma, in compliance with its Programme Contract, aims to manage traffic demand estimated in the long term (to 2046, the year the concession ends) at around 100 million passengers per year, with an average annual growth rate of 3.2%.

Adr envisaged a 9 billion euro investment plan, without public funding, of which 4 billion related to the 'maintenance' of the current infrastructure and 5 billion for new works.

The Research Centre in Strategic Change "Franco Fontana" of the Luiss Guido Carli University has carried out a study entitled "Fiumicino's Sustainable Development Plan: which economic and social benefits" by Enzo Peruffo and Alberto Petrucci:
the added value at the national level (discounted to today) amounts to about 70 billion (applying a discount rate of an average of 3% per year to bring it back to current values in 2025);
the effects on added value (discounted to today) and the effects on employment (new stable jobs to 2046) on the territory expected would be in Lazio +18 billion euros and 67.100 new jobs; in the Province of Rome +14 billion and 53,200 new jobs;
in the Municipality of Fiumicino +5 billion and 13,450 new jobs.

The goal is to get the final go-ahead for the Plan within about two years, so that work can gradually start and the main works can be completed by 2033, also in view of the next Jubilee.

The plan must complete the appropriate approval processes at the competent Ministries (Environment and Infrastructure).