The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, has announced that, before the end of the semester, Melilla will once again host a new meeting of the Transport Working Group.
“We are going to reconvene this working group that, in addition, makes sense to be in Melilla, in the territory itself, where not only will parliamentarians participate, many of them do not know the situation of Melilla, but the social agents, the business sectors, the Autonomous City, the Government Delegation… in short, all the agents involved and all those who know the subject from here, from the territory,” he said.
The head of the Government Delegation has addressed this issue to questions from the media about the request of the PP in the Cortes to create a Commission of study of the air transport of our city. “It is good that the PP has proposals, but this initiative was forgotten when they were in government and they are forgotten where they govern,” he lamented.
Faced with this, he pointed out to the Melilla Transport Working Group, of which the Secretary General of Air and Maritime Transport, Benito Nuñez, is part, “it is a good initiative and we will continue to carry it out”, and he has advanced that within it “we will touch on all the topics of interest”.
Thus, he recalled that at the last meeting of this group all the measures that have been put in place were praised, such as the change of category of the airport, which has meant that slightly larger aircraft could operate, or that the aircraft that are operating right now before did so with an exceptionality that, since the change of category, is no longer necessary; or the Public Service Obligation (OSP) with the lines of Almería, Seville and Granada and the improvement of it, has already gone from four weekly frequencies, to a minimum of five weekly frequencies in the flights with more fluence, such as that of Almería and Almería.
The Delegate also recalled the extension of the operating hours of the airport. “Many times we have seen flights cancelled due to the issue of a delay that has been translated so that it could no longer land at the airport, since it was closed. Now this problem is not so pressing, but it has been possible to produce at some point some delay that, although it is not desired, but it has been able to materialize and has not ended in a cancellation,” he recalled.
Therefore, “the operating hours, in addition to offering more possibilities to all travelers, have also been able to make some cancellations that were given due to the issue of delay disappear”.
Also, as a positive measure, Moh has referred to all the modifications and improvements that have been undertaken in the terminals of the airport of Melilla. “All the changes, all the improvements and all that we put the other time in value in this Working Group that will meet again to see all the possibilities that there are,” he said.