The opponents of the airport expansion are certain: The 3rd runway is not dead yet. The activists still have something to celebrate.
Freising
– It was the announcement of the opponents of the runway, heard again and again in the past months and years, which was also made on Wednesday in the annual general meeting of the action alliance Aufgemuckt: One will “not let oneself be lulled”, one will continue to be “vigilant” because the Runway is not yet dead and finally buried, as Aufgemuckt spokesman Christian Magerl put it.
In the Hofbrauhauskeller, Magerl first looked at the situation at the airport, where there have been changes in the past two and a half years due to Corona that have not been the case in the past 30 years: slumps in all areas.
Magerl reported 11.1 and 12.5 million passengers in 2020 and 2021, around 150,000 flight movements per year - "so far away from the 43,2000 flight movements that were already recorded in Moos".
You are at the level when the airport was still in Riem.
Of course: In the first five months of 2022, the numbers went up again compared to 2021 – plus 250 percent in flight movements, where around 250,000 will probably land at the end of the year, and plus 607 percent in passengers, where However, one is still 47.2 percent below the figures for 2019.
"Don't be lulled" by the CSU
In view of these figures and the forecasts that the number of business trips will decrease after the pandemic, Magerl described it as a "gross scandal" that the CSU continued to insist on the construction of the third runway and refused to give the priority area for the runway from the state development program to take out
One should not be lulled by the moratorium laid down in the coalition agreement and by Söder's statement that the runway will not be built during his term of office.
As long as the planning approval decision is not revoked, "the third runway is not dead," Magerl warned - especially since the aviation industry is "thinking in the old footsteps" and firmly assuming "to reach old heights again".
Statements about climate-neutral air traffic and "green kerosene" are "pure fantasies" given the minimal quantities, according to Magerl.
“This region will not stop fighting”
The member of parliament for the Greens, Johannes Becher, saw it the same way: "This region will not stop fighting", the building permit for the runway "must go".
And: "This day will come and then we'll open a keg," is Becher's view of the future.
Leaving the affected residents in the dark for as long as the CSU is doing is “shabby”.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
Claudia Kammerloher explained Aufgemuckt's cash status: They started 2019 with 10,700 euros and currently still have 6,675 euros in the till - money that could be used for actions in the upcoming state election campaign in 2023.
Christian Magerl (Freising) and Martin Falkenberg (Berglern) were confirmed in their posts in the new election of the Spokesman Council, and Michael Buchberger (Attaching) was elected for Stefan Nocon.
The new cashier is called Christian Oberhofer (Berglern), his deputy remains Rainer Pilz (Kranzberg).
Activists celebrate the anniversary of the referendum
For a long time, the runway resistance had to scale back its activities.
But the tenth anniversary of the referendum in Munich and the current corona situation have encouraged the activists to organize another major event on Sunday, July 10th: From 3 p.m. on the sports field in Berglern, “10 years of Munich referendum”.
Markus Geier, one of the local BI spokespersons, banged the drum at Aufgemuckt: According to Geier, it should be a family festival with a children's program and a beer garden atmosphere.
About the program: The official part begins at 3.30 p.m. with the speech of the former mayor of Berglern, Herbert Knur.
Knur will outline the history of the resistance.
In addition to greetings from political representatives, Katharina Schulze, the leader of the Greens in the state parliament and initiator of the referendum, will come and speak to the runway opponents.
From 5.30 p.m., people will form up on the sports grounds for a “light sign-light march”, as Geier put it.
And around 7 p.m. there will be a "green" cabaret - with member of the state parliament Johannes Becher, district councilor Toni Wollschläger and the chairman of BI Attaching, Franzspitzenberger.
Geier appealed that there should be a lot of advertising for the event in order to "send a strong signal" in opposition to the airport's expansion plans in Moos.
