TIADA Penumpang, TIADA Kapal TERBANG: Lapangan TERBANG 'Hantu' di EROPAH . . .

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.

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TENTERA Rusia MELENGKAPKAN Latihan PENEMPATAN-Cepat di KALININGRAD . . .

FILE PHOTO: Sistem peluru berpandu Iskander-M jarak dekat taktikal state-of-the-art (FILE PHOTO: A state-of-the-art Iskander-M short-range tactical missile system (RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf)

V^TwentyONE – Tentera Rusia telah membuat kesimpulan latihan kejutan besar di rantau Kaliningrad untuk menguji kesediaan pertempuran kira-kira 9,000 tentera dan 642 kenderaan, termasuk taktikal Iskander-M sistem peluru berpandu balistik dengan cepat dikerahkan dari tanah besar.

BACA lebih lanjut: NATO ketidakstabilan Baltic dengan menempatkan pesawat nuke-mampu – Moscow READ MORE: NATO destabilizing Baltic by stationing nuke-capable aircraft – Moscow

Latih tubi berlaku 05-10 disember, ketua Direktorat utama Operasi Stuff Besar, Leftenan Jeneral Andrey Kartapolov mengumumkan pada hari Selasa. Unit tentera dan pembentukan dikerahkan di Daerah Tentera Barat telah dibawa ke tahap tertinggi kesediaan pertempuran di 19:00 masa Moscow pada 5 Disember.

BACA lebih lanjut: Estonia latihan NATO adalah anti-Rusia, tidak membuat Eropah lebih selamat – Moscow READ MORE: NATO’s Estonia drills are anti-Russian, don’t make Europe more secure – Moscow

Latihan2 yg terlibat peluru berpandu dan meriam unit, infantri berjentera, tentera udara & marin, bahagian peninjau, komunikasi, logistik, serta krew pertempuran & pesawat pengangkutan tentera dan helikopter, & kapal Armada Baltik.

Taktikal Iskander-M sistem peluru berpandu balistik peluru berpandu pasukan Daerah Barat Tentera ini telah pesat dipindahkan dari tanah besar Rusia untuk menjalankan-perarakan tugas latihan pertempuran. Dalam masa 2 hari, 2 pasukan telah dikerahkan di Kaliningrad dgn pesawat pengangkutan ketenteraan dan kapal Armada Baltik.

Russian MILITARY Completes RAPID-Deployment DRILLs 

in KALININGRAD . . .

The Russian military has concluded a massive surprise drill in the Kaliningrad region to test the combat readiness of some 9,000 troops and 642 vehicles, including tactical Iskander-M ballistic missile systems rapidly deployed from the mainland.

READ MORE: NATO destabilizing Baltic by stationing nuke-capable aircraft – Moscow

The drills took place December 5-10, the head of the main Operation Directorate of General Stuff, Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov announced on Tuesday. Military units and formations deployed in the Western Military District were brought to their highest level of combat readiness at 7 p.m. Moscow time on December 5.

READ MORE: NATO’s Estonia drills are anti-Russian, don’t make Europe more secure – Moscow

The exercises involved missile and artillery units, mechanized infantry, airborne troops and marines, division reconnaissance, communications, logistics, as well as the crews of combat and military transport aircraft and helicopters, and vessels of the Baltic Fleet.

Tactical Iskander-M ballistic missile systems of the Western Military District’s missile brigade were rapidly transferred from Russia’s mainland to conduct off-the-march combat training tasks. Within two days, two brigades were deployed in Kaliningrad by the military transport aircraft and vessels of the Baltic Fleet.

FILE PHOTO: sistem peluru berpandu Iskander-M (FILE PHOTO: Iskander-M missile system (RIA Novosti/Alexander Vilf)

Sementara itu, Pertahanan Tentera udara menangkis serangan simulasi musuh manuver pada pemasangan kerajaan dan tentera strategik. Latihan perlindungan sempadan taktikal juga termasuk laut dan latihan di bawah air.

Sekumpulan antar beroperasi sepenuhnya dan mampu diri tentera telah dicipta dalam "tempoh yang singkat," kata Kartapolov, sambil menambah kini semua unit yang mengambil bahagian dalam latihan taktikal telah kembali ke tempat-tempat penempatan kekal mereka.

Pada tahun 2014, tentera Rusia memegang pelbagai gerakan di beberapa daerah di Rusia, termasuk 2 acara sukan utama - Vostok-2014 dan Rusia-China Naval Inter-aksi-2014. Vostok 2014 adalah latihan ketenteraan yang paling menonjol, yang diadakan di 11 kawasan di bahagian Timur Jauh Rusia dengan kira-kira 150,000 orang yang mengambil bahagian.

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Meanwhile, the Air Defense forces repelled a simulated attack of the maneuver enemy on strategic government and military installations. The tactical border pro-tection exercises also included sea and underwater drills.

A fully operational and self-sufficient interspecific group of troops was created within a “very short period of time,” Kartapolov said, adding that currently all the units taking part in tactical exercises have returned to the places of their permanent deployment.

In 2014, the Russian military held numerous maneuvers in several districts of Russia, including two major exercise events – Vostok-2014 and Russia-China Naval Interaction-2014. Vostok 2014 was the most prominent military drill, held in 11 areas in the Far Eastern part of Russia with about 150,000 people participating.

READ MORE: Surprise drill puts over 100,000 troops through their paces in Russia’s Far East

Marines ("Black Berets") Di/in Kaliningrad (RIA Novosti/Igor Zarembo)

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