in 2019 were exceeded 52 million passenger. The pandemic halted this progression, but experts warn that, among this year and nextthese moments of saturationthat generate delaysinconvenience to users and airlines dissatisfied. The El Prat airport have of the clues parallel, which are the ones that are commonly used, a long on the mountain side (07L/25R) and another shorter one on the sea side (07R/25L). There is a third, the cross track (02/20), operational on night flights. With this settingwith this operational capacity, it can not increase the number of intercontinental flights.
In recent weeks, supposedly in the final stretch of the negotiation of the budgets of the Generalitat, the discussion between ERC and the PSC has had a debate three infrastructure projects of a very different depth. The continuation of the B-40 o fourth beltThe installation of Hard Rock in the camp of Tarragona and, cleared the first two, more insistently, the enlargement from Barcelona airport. However, ignoring the reality of what can or cannot be done in this space, the republican and socialist politicians now discuss the termthe word, the concept, with which baptize what they would both agree to in writing in a eventual pact.
Noise about neighbors or lengthen
In 1999, the plan director from airport infrastructure established that it would work with independent tracks, that is, with takeoffs and landings on one runway or another. Thus, they ‘fit’ until 90 operations per hour. The conflict arose when, by using the long runway for the aircraft to take off, the residents of Castelldefels and Gavà Mar mobilized to to protest for him noisewhich caused the system to be reconfigured and, as muchcurrently can be done 78 operations per hour.
The A natural space where the airport is located, in the middle of Llobregat delta and with numerous figures of environmental Protection that preserve it, conditions any expansion, modernization, renovation project or the concept with which they decide name the thing. However, there are only two alternatives: either the current configuration of the slopes is changed (with the noise pollution that this entails) or lengthen the shortest track in 300 or 500 meters so that they can use it large capacity aircraft and the desired 90 operations per hour are reached (and in this case the adjacent wetlands are affected).
As collected by studio of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) published last year on the airport debate, after analyzing how is it designedwhat is the need for environmental protection And, without forgetting the concern for sustainable growth in the midst of the climate crisis, there are only these options. I would have to talk to them town hallssince it would affect some 15,000 people from 8,000 homes in the area, soundproof buildings which are located 2,500 meters from the long track. O well lengthen the shortproposal on its day of Aena that generated mobilizations and the CKD rejection.
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while, in Promotion of Workon Mondays of every 15 days continues to meet commission to debate the formula that should allow the growth of airport from El Prat. Barely four months from municipal electionsit is more than foreseeable that the debate in Barcelona on the advisability of expanding the infrastructure. Despite the fact that both the airport manager and the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchezhave insisted over and over again that investments in infrastructure shall waitr to the next Airport Regulation Document (DORA), beyond 2026.
The commission, which works since september without publicly reporting progress, continues to listen to the appearing. They are evaluating Aena’s offer, which was explained to them at the time by the company’s Planning Director, Elena Mayoraland have also listened to representatives of Barcelona Faircouncilors of the metropolitan area, airport technicians.