Ayuso charges against the limitation of commercial flights: "Many will use the car"
Isabel Díaz Ayuso has not taken 24 hours to criticize the measures of the agreement between the PSOE and Sumar. The president of the Community of Madrid has criticized the limitation of commercial flights in Spain because it can “saturate” other services. “Many citizens will use their private car to avoid surprises,” the PP leader declared this Tuesday during a day on the environment organized by Madridiario..
The Madrid president has attacked the “interventionism” of Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, who are betting on a reduction in short flights in the interior of the Peninsula when there is a train alternative of less than two and a half hours. “This does not always have to happen and services can be saturated. It may happen that one loses the mobility of one mode of transport and chooses the other.. That is to say, when you intervene in the markets, the opposite effect always occurs and many citizens will end up using a private vehicle to avoid surprises and changes,” he added..
Ayuso has placed this issue as the first battle against the incumbent Government. The words of the regional leader maintain the line of recent months, with a constant criticism of the policies of the left. “I do not believe so much in interventionism and political dirigisme as in offering to provide solutions in freedom so that the market, companies, citizens and administrations can walk together,” he stressed during the day..
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The agreement between the PSOE and Sumar includes a “reduction of domestic flights” in cases where there is an alternative of less than hours and a half, although with the exception of “cases of connection with hub airports that link with international routes”. That is, there would be no prohibition on the connection between Madrid and Barcelona, for example. The measure has the objective of reducing pollution, although the airlines have already stated that it will not have the desired effect if a specific plan is not addressed for the AVE lines to connect directly with the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport..
The initiative is not new in Europe. France did the same last May, with a similar response from the companies involved. The measure would have an impact of 102 million euros annually on the national GDP and the loss of up to 1,852 full-time jobs for every million passengers, according to a PwC report commissioned by Iberia.. This writing is based on the routes that connect the capital with Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Seville and Valencia