Airports: the mayors of Milan, Turin and Genoa call for talks to integrate the airports
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - New developments in the skies over the north-west of the country. Following the study that SEA (operator of Linate and Malpensa airports) is carrying out with a view to merging with SAGAT (operator of Turin airport), a new player has entered the picture: Genoa Airport (whose shareholders have initiated procedures to float 60 per cent of the airport’s operating company on the market).
The mayors of Milan, Turin and Genoa are, in fact, proposing to launch a joint initiative with the regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, aimed at coordinating and integrating the operations of the four airports – Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Turin Caselle and Genoa Cristoforo Colombo, with the aim of strengthening the region’s international competitiveness whilst enhancing the specific strengths of the areas served. According to a statement, the proposal forms part of the discussions already initiated by the presidents of the Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria regions through a joint working group on infrastructure, which could now also explore the prospects for integrating the north-west’s airport system.
To this end, the mayors Giuseppe Sala, Stefano Lo Russo and Silvia Salis are calling for the establishment of an institutional round table with the presidents of the three regions, in order to identify the most effective ways of harnessing the potential of the four airports operating in the north-west of the country, one of Europe’s main economic and infrastructural hubs.
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