The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, said this Friday that NAV Portugal guarantees that it can increase the capacity of Lisbon airport from the current 38 to 50 flights per hour.
“NAV Portugal has the conditions to increase the machine processing capacity to 50 movements per hour. [em Lisboa]”, said the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing in the Assembly of the Republic this Friday during a debate on sectoral policy.
The government official was referring to the guarantee provided by NAV, the air traffic service provider, in a memorandum in response to a government request signed by three administrators, including President Pedro Angelo, and sent to the ministry in May. 3.
Pinto Luz was responding to questions from Socialist MP Hugo Costa about the government’s announcement on Tuesday that it would increase the capacity of Humberto Delgado airport to 45 flights per hour.
The PS deputy, as did party secretary general Pedro Nuno Santos during the two-week debate on Wednesday, asked the minister on what studies the decision to increase the capacity of this infrastructure is based, recalling that the Independent Technical Commission (CTI) that carried out the strategic environmental assessment of the new airport , excludes an increase in the number of flights.
The minister stressed that the government “does not make decisions lightly” and noted that “whoever made this decision [NAV]”wasn’t the one you nominated.
Lisbon’s new NAV Point Merge air traffic re-engineering system, which could reduce delays, went into operation on Thursday following negotiations with the Air Force and an investment of two million euros.
While NAV hopes that the new system will contribute to reducing delays at Lisbon Airport, it stressed that this depends not only on the airspace, but above all on the infrastructure, highlighting that in 2023 the contribution of air traffic control to flight delays was 10%.
The Point Merge system was only tested for Lisbon and was being worked on while planning to create a dual airport solution with Portela + Montijo to gradually increase the capacity of the Lisbon airport system from 44 to 72 flights per hour (46 in Lisbon). , two in Cascais and 24 in Montijo).
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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