{"id":9450,"date":"2025-10-09T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/novo-aeroporto-esta-a-dar-enormes-prejuizos-ao-estado\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:57:11","slug":"new-airport-is-causing-huge-losses-to-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/new-airport-is-causing-huge-losses-to-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"New Airport Is Causing Huge Losses to the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"274\">With more than 25 years of experience in the aviation sector, an aviation and airport specialist says he has <strong data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"272\">never seen an airport inaugurated \u201cwith such pomp and circumstance\u201d only to be closed shortly afterward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"593\">In an interview with <em data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"314\">Valor Econ\u00f3mico<\/em>, he warns that the <strong data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"385\">new airport is causing huge losses to the State<\/strong>, calls for the creation of incentives to encourage the emergence of new operators in the market, and proposes greater <strong data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"549\">interconnection between domestic airports<\/strong>, which he describes as \u201cwhite elephants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"736\">According to <strong data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"624\">Pedro Castro<\/strong>, it is time to shut down <strong data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"658\">TAAG<\/strong>, as \u201cno private investor would accept to buy it \u2014 not even for one dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"1329\">\n<p data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"1329\">\u201cWhen I look at Angola, and especially considering that it is the seventh-largest country in Africa, I conclude that this vast territory has a mobility problem. There is no efficient highway network, nor a fast and reliable railway network. Therefore, any journey in Angola that is not made by plane is a long one. That\u2019s why air travel is so important \u2014 both for movement within the country and for connections with neighboring regions and countries. Yet, in this large nation, only two cities have airports capable of receiving international flights: Luanda and Benguela,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1594\">He points to <strong data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1381\">Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1419\">Royal Air Maroc in Casablanca<\/strong> as the most obvious cases in Africa. Without these airlines, those airports \u201cwould not be major hubs at all, as they would lack the carrier to make them function that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1596\" data-end=\"1762\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"1598\" data-end=\"1762\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s very important to distinguish between infrastructure and the business model of the economic operator. They are two completely different things,\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 25 years of experience in the aviation sector, an aviation and airport specialist says he has never seen an airport inaugurated \u201cwith such pomp and circumstance\u201d only to be closed shortly afterward. 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