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"The State has learned absolutely nothing from Notre-Dame-des-Landes": residents of Nantes airport between anger and bitterness

2023-01-16T19:15:44.328Z


REPORT - Fall in the number of passengers, redevelopment at a standstill... The fog is thickening around the future of Nantes-Atlantique.


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A handful of kilometers south-west of Nantes, the sixth French airport has not yet returned to the traffic posted before the health crisis.

Nantes-Atlantique welcomed around 6 million passengers in 2022, compared to 7.1 million in 2019, an absolute record.

Its redevelopment, detailed by Matignon after the abandonment of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project, remains stalled.

The program was to end in 2025 for 150 to 300 million euros.

But the Covid-19 has been there.

“Two months of complete closure of the airport are necessary to carry out the work.

We could have taken advantage of the confinements to do them”,

ironically Guillaume Dalmard, president of the association Les Ailes pour l’Ouest, who was in favor of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project.

Over the annual monitoring committees in the prefecture, the fog thickens.

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“The State has not measured the consequences of its decision to maintain Nantes-Atlantique instead of building Notre-Dame-des-Landes”,

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Source: lefigaro

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