The Government anticipates to invest 5 million euros in the airport of Ibiza

The central Executive announces diverse performances destined to increase the security of the terminal of ibiza, like the improvement of the emergency landing track.

The central Government anticipates to invest during 2006 a total of 5.07 million euros in the aeroportuarias facilities of Ibiza, that will go specially directed to improve the emergency landing track, the parking of airport and to support the land expropriation. Other performances of the Government will be destined to increase the security of the airport, make works in the terminal or improve the positioning system. However, it will not invest any amount in the area of movement of airplanes (until 2008, when it anticipates to destine to this point 50,000 euros), in the renovation of internal facilities or performances of structural reinforcement in the terminal building, which are projected for 2009. The number of investments is reduced almost to half, if compared with the numbers of 2005, date in which an investment of nine million euros was surpassed. In 2007, an increase of the post is expected, since they anticipate investments by an amount of 18.730.000 euros. This way, the Government considers that, from 2002 to 2010, the real investment of the State in Ibiza is of 84.888.000 euros. Accounts that do not adjust to the traffic that undergoes the airport pitiuso, according to the senator by Ibiza and Formentera, Antoni Marí Carraca, that remembered that an increase of a million seats for this season is anticipated, according to the movements programmed by the organism Spanish Airports and Navegacion Aerea (AENA). These numbers locate to the facilities of Ibiza in the fourth place with a greater growth in number of flights with a total of 7,084, only surpassed by Barcelona, Palma and Madrid-Barajas, "although in the three last ones, these numbers will suppose a similar increase in number of seats supplied and not as high as in the case of Ibiza", according to Marí. The Government could do modifications in the budgetary forecasts depending on the anticipated aerial adjustment as far as the traffic although in 2005 a tendency of inferior growth to initially anticipated did not come to any change "when considering in relation to the number of commercial planes and of passengers", according to the senator pitiuso. On the other hand, Antoni Marí remembered that the investments of the Balears are not compared with those of the Canary Islands, where they expect superior investments to improve infrastructures ".

Ibiza request the tabaco sale in the tourist commerce

The Parliament approved yesterday a Proposal of Law of the Popular Group that insists to the central Government to that it allows the tabaco sale in the commerce of the islands of Ibiza, in order to avoid the serious economic damages that this prohibition will tolerate to a productive sector that obtains important income with the commercialization of this product. The deputy of the Popular Group, Miquel Munar, defended the urgency that the central Executive extends the channels of tobacco sale.

Ibiza only produced 0.02% of the total of Balears of renewable energies

Ibiza only produced in 2005 0.02% of the total of Balears of energy in special regime (alternative energy), from which 93% came from the urban solid remainders. Nevertheless, Ibiza only counts on 9 connected photovoltaic facilities that are conected to a net, that generated 24.5 megavolts as opposed to the 133,278 in the set of Balears including the totality of productions of renewable energies, puting itself in the last position of the balearic islands. Majorca was the island with the greater production of photovoltaic energy, with 24 facilities, and a generation of 609 megavolts, whereas Menorca, that counts on 13 connected facilities that network, generated 46 megavolts, according to what GESA informed in an official note. Ibiza lacks connected alternative facilities to the formation communications net with the exception of the photovoltaic ones, whereas Majorca as much has these are coming from Aeolian urban remainders and. Menorca generates 4.1% of Aeolian energy on the registered total in special regime.

Spanair suspension of the flight between Ibiza and Madrid

Spanair justified yesterday the suspension of the first flight in the morning that united Ibiza with Madrid at 7.40 hours for "merely economic" reasons, since "this one was not profitable for the company", according to the airline. The same sources considered that this fact "will not harm the tourism facing this season, since indeed the visitors of the islands usually do not travel by this time because to wake up this early dosen't do them any good ". From Spanair they affirmed that the suppression of this flight "does not mean a damage of the services of the company with Ibiza, since indeed this summer the frequencies with respect to 2005 although with other schedules could be increased. The costs of an airplane to the city of madrid, as well as of its crew, are very high because if this it does not interest the company to maintain it ", summarized. With respect to the declarations of the socialist deputy, Jose Ramon Mateos, where this he affirmed that this connection is profitable "because usually it goes full and its suppression has more to do with the opening of new Terminal 4", from Spanair contradicted its words assuring that "they do not have sense since Spanair operates in the T2, not in the four", and that if this slot would be profitable they would maintain it ".