V^TwentyONE – Eropah telah dicat baru
landasan, Di seluruh lapangan terbang yang dilanda krisis 'hantu' pintu baru
berkilat dan semua kacang dan bolt di tempatnya - tetapi tiada penumpang dan
tiada kapal terbang, memberikan mereka aura2 yang ngeri.
Kos yang melambung tinggi telah melambatkan upacara memotong
reben, seperti kemelesetan paling teruk di Eropah dalam tempoh 100 tahun telah
membunuh projek2.
Suruhanjaya Eropah ketepikan berjuta-juta euro dlm
pembiayaan utk meningkat-kan infrastruktur di lapangan terbang serantau,
tetapi mereka sedang menunggu untuk pelancong dan pesawat yang tidak pernah
datang, dan telah menjadi simbol perbelanjaan melulu.
"Kesukaran anda mempunyai degn Kesatuan Eropah yang
akhirnya ia mempunyai semua wang ini yang ianya mahu untuk melepaskan dalam
naungan melalui geran dan segala macam gaji buta yang berbeza, di seluruh
negeri yang 28 negara, dan ia mahu untuk mencuba dan membuat kesan ekonomi,
"Patrick Young, seorang pakar kewangan, memberitahu RT.
Orang-orang di Brussels "percaya wang tumbuh di atas
pokok, iaitu masalah asas yang menolak EU ke arah titik yang pecah," kata
Young.
NO Passengers, NO Planes: ‘GHOSTt’ Airports Of EUROPE . . .
Across crisis-stricken Europe ‘ghost’ airports have freshly
painted tarmac, shiny new doors and all the nuts and bolts in place - but no
passengers and no airplanes, giving them an eerie aura.
Soaring costs have delayed the ribbon cutting ceremonies, as
Europe’s worst recession in 100 years has killed the projects.
The European Commission dispensed millions of euro in funding
to boost the infrastructure at regional airports, but they are waiting for
travelers and planes that never came, and have become symbols of reckless
spending.
“The difficulty you have with the European Union is that
ultimately it has all this money that it wants to divest in patronage through
grants and all sorts of different sinecures, throughout the land of the 28
nations, and it wants to try and make an economic impact,” Patrick Young, a
financial expert, told RT.
People in Brussels “believe money grows on trees, that is the
fundamental problem that is pushing the EU towards breaking point,” Young said.
Lublin Airport in Poland. (Photo from wikipedia.org)
Poland yang menyertai Kesatuan Eropah pada tahun 2004, dan
telah dipuji oleh Suruhanjaya bagi pembaharuan ekonomi & tanggungjawab
kewangan, menerima lebih $125 juta (€ 100 juta) utk membantu membina &
menaik taraf 12 lapangan terbang.
Lublin dan Rzeszow adalah di bahagian hutan dan berbukit
timur negara itu dan belum dibuka. Lapangan Terbang di Lodz telah diberi wajah
baru, tetapi telah gagal untuk menarik penumpang kerana ianya terletak hanya
dalam jarak 50 minit pemanduan dari Warsaw, lapangan terbang terbesar di negara
ini Lodz dibuka pada tahun 2012.
Poland menerima €615.7 juta dari EU untuk menyokong kewangan
lubang hitam di antara 2007 dan 2013, menurut angka yang diberikan oleh
Suruhanjaya Eropah untuk Reuters.
Poland, which joined the EU in 2004, and has been lauded by
the Commission for its economic reforms and financial responsibility, received
over $125 million (€100 million) to help build and upgrade 12 airports.
Lublin and Rzeszow are in the forested and hilly east part of
the country and haven’t yet opened. Lodz airport was given a facelift, but has
failed to attract passengers as it’s located just a 50 minute drive away from
Warsaw, the country’s largest airport Lodz opened in 2012.
Poland received €615.7 million from the EU to support these
financial black holes between 2007 and 2013, according to figures provided by
the European Commission to Reuters.
Rzeszow airport in Poland (Photo from wikipedia.org)
Lapangan terbang gagal menarik syarikat penerbangan tambang
murah untuk mengendalikan penerbangan di antara bandar-bandar kecil dan hab yang
lebih besar.
"Hubungan antara lapangan terbang tempatan dan syarikat
penerbangan tambang rendah adalah membunuh diri," Jacek Krawczyk, bekas
pengerusi Poland LOT syarikat penerbangan kebangsaan kepada Reuters.
Poland bukannya satu-satunya negara di Eropah untuk
menghabiskan nasib pada gajah putih.
The airports failed to attract budget airlines to operate
flights in between the small cities and bigger hubs.
“The relationship between the local airports and low-cost
carriers is suicidal,” Jacek Krawczyk, former chairman of Polish national
airline LOT told Reuters.
Poland is not the only country in Europe to spend fortunes on
white elephants.
Lodz airport south of Warsaw, Poland (Photo from
wikipedia.org)
Di sebelah selatan, Sepanyol menerima elaun yang ke-2
terbesar dari SPR untuk membina lapangan terbang, yg juga gagal utk menarik
penerbangan komersial. Keadaan ini begitu buruk bahawa salah satu daripadanya,
lapangan terbang Ciudad Real di tengah Sepanyol, adalah untuk dijual di 10 % peratus
harga kos untuk membina.
Lapangan terbang itu dibuka pada tahun 2008 dan kos €1.1
billion untuk membina, dan ditutup pada tahun 2012, dan ia kini mempunyai tag harga
sebanyak € 100 juta. Tiada penerbangan komersial telah beroperasi sejak 2011.
Di pantai timur, Castellon-Costa lapangan terbang €150 juta dalam
Valencia dibina pada tahun 2011 tidak pernah menyaksikan pesawat tunggal
mndarat. Landasan yg tidak cukup panjang utk mendapatkan lesen yg
diperlukan utk menguruskan penerbangan komersial. Pengendali lapangan terbang
itu menjangkakan ia akan menjadi 50,000 penumpang pada tahun 2015, dan
200,000 pada 2017.
Sekitar 80 lapangan terbang di Eropah menarik kurang daripada
1 juta penum-pang setahun dan kira-kira 3 suku daripada yg di dalamnya lampu merah,
menurut badan industri Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa.
To the south, Spain received the second biggest allowance
from the EC to build airports, which are also failing to attract commercial
flights. The situation is so dire that one of them, Ciudad Real airport in
central Spain, is up for sale at 10 percent the price it cost to build. The
airport opened in 2008 and cost €1.1 billion to construct, and closed in 2012,
and it now has a price tag of €100 million. No commercial flights have operated
since 2011.
On the eastern coast, the €150 million Castellon-Costa
airport in Valencia built in 2011 has never seen a single plane land. The runway
isn’t long enough to get the license needed to run commercial flights. The
airport’s operator anticipates it will serve 50,000 passengers in 2015, and
200,000 by 2017.
Around 80 airports in Europe attract fewer than 1 million
passengers a year and about three-quarters of those are in the red, according
to industry body Airports Council International.
Yet to be opened Ciudad Real airport (Photo from
wikipedia.org)
Jerman mempunyai masalah perbelanjaan dan juga ketika datang
ke lapangan terbang. Brandenburg lapangan terbang di Berlin mungkin perlu satu
lagi €3.2 billion utk akhirnya membuka pintunya di atas €5.4 billion yg sudah
dibelanjakan.
Berliners telah menunggu untuk kemudahan baru mereka untuk
membuka sejak 2011, tetapi mungkin perlu menunggu sehingga 2016 atau 2017. Ia
terletak di selatan Berlin di sebelah Lapangan Terbang Schonefeld yang kini
beroperasi.
Germany has spending problems as well when it comes to
airports. Berlin’s Brandenburg airport will likely need another €3.2 billion to
finally open its doors on top of the €5.4 billion already spent.
Berliners have been waiting for their new facility to open
since 2011, but will likely have to wait until 2016 or 2017. It is located
south of Berlin next to Schonefeld Airport which is currently operating.
