Ministry collects controversial airport report - Freising district administrator criticizes

Created: 06/29/2022, 19:00

By: Andreas Beschorner

Does the third runway no longer make sense from a technical point of view?

At least that is what the reaction of the Ministry of Economics suggests, which, according to the Freising district administrator, made a structural report disappear in the drawer.

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The Ministry of Economics has collected an expert opinion on the 3rd runway.

Freising's district administrator believes it has fallen "out of favor" over the results.

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– The structural report for Munich Airport should be around 250 pages long.

The problem, which, according to district administrator Helmut Petz, the mayor of Freising, Tobias Eschenbacher, and Neufahrn's municipal chief, Franz Heilmeier, are said to have already described as a "scandal": Apparently, a comparison between the so-called forecast zero case - i.e. a Moos Airport without a 3rd runway - and an airport came up Munich out three runways results that did not speak for the construction of the runway.

As a result, the expert opinion "fell out of favor", as Petz put it, and was, so to speak, confiscated by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.

District Administrator Helmut Petz criticized that the report simply disappeared in the drawer.

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Since then it has been dormant in some drawers.

The neighborhood advisory board does not want to accept this, Petz emphasized on Tuesday as part of the mayor's service meeting to the heads of the district's town hall.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Economics, Petz reported from the previous meeting of the neighborhood advisory board, that the report was incorrect and had shortcomings, which is why it did not see the light of day.

District master builder Seubert: "Really annoying"

That could be the case, Petz admitted to the ministry in his reaction.

But then it's just a matter of eliminating the shortcomings.

The unanimous opinion of the neighborhood advisory board was that the report, into which the municipalities had put a lot of work and money, should not disappear in a drawer.

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District master builder Antonia Seubert shared this assessment: It was “really annoying” because a lot of energy and manpower was used, but the district administration was expressly “forbidden” by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to use data from the report.

And so the paper had just “disappeared,” as Seubert put it.

A new report is to be commissioned

As District Administrator Petz further said, the neighborhood advisory board will probably commission a new structural report at the suggestion of its chairwoman Christa Stewens, the preparation of which will apparently be supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The decision on this is to be taken at the next meeting.

There were no requests to speak or comments from the ranks of the district mayors.