new Corvera Airport

[busylady]

Does anyone know anythng about this please and when it may be completed? Thanks

[GAL]

It was due for opening in 2007 originally then they said it would be opened in 2009 looks like that will not happen watch this space for more info

[torrerick]

Well its now 2011 and still no sign of the airport Has anybody got an update

[webby]

It is unlikely this airport will ever open. (copied from another site)

GHOST white-elephant airports in Spain rarely see any flights and cost
billions, it has been revealed.


Of the 48 regional commercial airports built in the debt-ridden country
in less than 20 years, only 11 make a profit.

Huesca, opened in 2007 for tourists heading to the central Pyrenees, was
a personal initiative by a local politician. He hoped it would bring
prosperity to the region.

Its last commercial flight took off in April and the next is not due to
land until January 2012. The airport, just 45 miles from another at
Zaragoza, lost six million euros last year. Its shops are closed and the
site is deserted apart from a small staff. There is a lone security
guard and an air-traffic controller is on stand-by for private planes.

Economics expert Germa Bel i Queralt told leading Madrid daily newspaper
El Pais: "Spain doesn't have a transportation policy but a brand
policy. We dazzle the world with the best terminals.

"We wanted to teach the world a lesson and here we are with the
highest unemployment rate and AENA, the aviation agency that loses the
most money in the world." Castellon, on the east coast, opened in
March within 100 miles of three thriving airports and despite the fact
that no aircraft can arrive because it is awaiting landing permits. The
restriction is likely to remain for at least eight months.

New Corvera airport in Murcia is unlikely to open at all. The regional
government insisted work should go ahead although the site is within 19
miles of flights to San Javier and 80 miles from Alicante, Spain's
sixth biggest airport.

Ciudad Real, built as a second airport for Madrid although it is 118
miles away, handles just 100,000 passengers a year, and staff work three
months on and three months off. Inaugurated in 2008, it was a failure
from day one, despite being forecast to welcome 2.5million passengers in
its first five years.

As part of a series of measures to try to pull Spain out of its deep
economic problems, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
promised partially to privatise its airports.