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CDS-PP is “shocked” that TAP will abandon the four routes it operates at the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport. In a statement, the party called the “excuse of lack of profitability” pathetic. It speaks of “scandal” and says that the airline can not only serve Lisbon.
First, the CDS-PP speaks of “absolute perplexity”, then of “shock”, then of “scandal”. This is how the party saw the announcement that TAP will stop operating the four lines it maintained from the Francisco Sá Carneiro airport, a fact that deserved an immediate repudiation by the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira.
To our absolute perplexity, the TAP paid by all Portuguese, leaves the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, the most important in the northwest of the peninsula, with the lame excuse of the lack of profitability in the operation, an excuse in the meantime totally denied by the chronic loss of some intact routes. from Lisbon ”, affirms the CDS-PP, in a statement, issued this Sunday, and signed by the member of the Party’s Executive Committee, Raúl Almeida.
In the statement, the CDS-PP recalls the 1.7 billion euros of taxpayers that will be injected into the Portuguese airline. And he questions the argument of the lack of profitability of the routes operated from Porto. “Curiously, the German flag company operates fundamental routes from Porto, profitably, without the German taxpayers having to bear it with their taxes,” says Raúl Almeida.
In addition, the CDS-PP adds, in the aforementioned statement: “The Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport has known, until the pandemic period, constant growth, as a result of the operation of different companies, as a general rule more profitable and without permanent taxation of their taxpayers. countries of origin “.
The centrists, therefore, attack the Minister of Infrastructure, Pedro Nuno Santos: “According to the Minister Pedro Nuno Santos and the socialist government, all Portuguese have the obligation to pay the financial hole of TAP, but only the Lisbon region has the right to be served by TAP “.
“The CDS questions all this, scandalized by the scandal that this inexplicable decision constitutes, demanding political responsibility from those who have it and defending Portugal as a whole, and never at the expense of others,” concluded Raúl Almeida, in the statement issued. this Sunday.
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