the purchase of 10 new aircraft for an investment of one billion dollars, 44 new routes (half of Rome and Milan, and the rest from regional airports) and 3 million more passengers . Here is a summary of the plan of development of Ryanair in Italy expected in 2017 in response to the cancellation of the increase in the municipal tax of 2.5 euro by Sept. 1 next Renzi decided by the government. The largest investment ever in Italy for the low cost airline was presented by the CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, flanked by the Minister of Transport, Graziano Delrio, and the president, Vito Riggio. The project, according to forecasts, will allow the company to reach 32 million passengers by 2016 35 million next year and create 2,250 number of jobs that will be in the national airports.
Delrio: “Opportunities for employment and tourism ‘
The Italian government continues in the path alignment with European standards, to increase with the services to citizens and establish opportunities for all investors. We greet positively the business plan 2017 Ryanair, allowing more flights, more opportunities to tourism in Italy and above all more jobs, “said the minister Delrio. O’Leary thanked the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and the Minister Delrio: “Without their work we would not have this level of development, growth, investment and jobs for Italy because we had decided to invest these resources elsewhere. Then we changed our minds: now adopting some measures the government will encourage the growth of tourism in Italy, growth that would have been lost, in favor of other EU countries, if the increase in municipal tax had not been canceled and the guidelines airport had not been reformulated to comply with Community rules. ”
the question of Alghero and Pescara
also Ryanair has decided to suspend the closure of its base in Pescara, announced in recent months, and put back from now selling tickets for flights from this airport. “We remain in talks with the airport of Alghero – precise O’Leary – and we are confident to close a similar agreement with them when, in early September, concluderano the privatization project in progress that could allow this airport to reopen at the end November”. In particular, the change in airport guidelines made by the Minister Delrio, “Italians will allow regional airports to compete on an equal footing with the airports of Rome and Milan, while ensuring compliance with EU standards,” they point to the top of Ryanair. After the slowdown recorded in the first half of the year, the minister stressed that Delrio to grow the GDP serve public and private investment: why the government “will continue to attract private investment” and for public investment “in recent days launched a plan of over 20 billion which are the second leg of a table which I hope always will strengthen more. ” And anyway ‘accounts are made at year end. ” The president, Vito Riggio, looks ahead: “The development of air transport is a primary objective to assist the economic growth of the entire national system. We live in a time when the reference is no longer the national but especially for air transport and the rules that govern it, is that of Europe, while respecting equitable competition and passenger rights. “
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