ANDIn a statement, the business association of the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria defends that “the ongoing process be immediately interrupted and that a new process be started, with the speed that the time targets imposed by the European Commission recommend”.
The CCIPD emphasizes that it “has followed, with the utmost attention, the entire privatization process” of Azores Airlines, highlighting the importance of the public company for the region, “both for the services it provides and for the contingencies it has already generated and which may still generate for the public budget”.
“For many years now, the CCIPD has been intervening to defend the delineation of a sensible policy for accessibility in the Azores without the uncontrolled depletion of the public budget, borne by all Azoreans, on each island, including those where CCIPD members work, comprising the space where almost 70% of all economic activity in the Azores takes place, for the gains and costs inherent to them”, the note reads.
For the business association, it is necessary to start a new process of privatization of Azores Airlines, responsible for connections with the outside of the archipelago, which allows “incorporating new and positive information” and “correcting vicissitudes of the current tender that can be avoided, without hindering the that current competitors can present themselves again by improving their responses”.
The board of directors of Grupo SATA, which is resigning, has already sent its opinion on the Azores Airlines privatization process to the Regional Government, expressing “reservations about the NewTour MS Aviation consortium and the competitor’s limitations”.
The competition jury, led by economist Augusto Mateus, maintained the decision to accept only one competitor in the final report, but admitted reservations regarding the ability of the Newtour MS Aviation consortium to ensure the company’s viability.
Last week, the regional secretary for Mobility, Berta Cabral, said that “the Government Council will decide and it will be soon”.
The SATA Group also owns, for connections between the Azores islands, SATA Air Açores.
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