2023-07-21 18:44:04
By Emmanuel Egloff
Published on 07/21/2023 at 18:44, Updated on 07/21/2023 at 18:44
The last major renovation of Nantes Atlantique airport dates back more than twenty-five years when it recorded one of the strongest growths of airports in France. LOIC VENANCE/AFP
A year after the submission of the only offer by Vinci, the government has not chosen the concessionaire. The memory of Notre-Dame-des-Landes haunts the file.
These are signatures that you rarely see gathered at the bottom of a letter. Christelle Morançais, the LR president of the Pays de la Loire region, Johanna Rolland, the PS mayor of Nantes, Alain Leboeuf, the LR president of Vendée, and Michel Ménard, his PS counterpart at the head of Loire-Atlantique, challenged the President of the Republic in a letter of June 26. Object of their wrath? The uncertainties surrounding the future of Nantes Atlantique airport, which absolutely must be renovated.
In January 2018, after more than ten years of upheaval, Emmanuel Macron decided to abandon the project for an airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. A few months later, Elisabeth Borne, then Minister of Transport, promised a massive renovation of that of Nantes Atlantique. It is more than a necessity, an emergency. Its last major renovation dates back more than twenty-five years when it recorded one of the strongest growths of airports in France.
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