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According to MurciaToday 

Aena to close San Javier airport.

The whole subject of airports is an essential part of the ongoing tourism development of the region, and this week has been an interesting one in the life of the San Javier – Corvera airport saga. This week the former concessionary witnessed the departure of its president as it prepares its defence in a number of court cases relating to the rescission of its contract as the concessionary of Corvera airport following its failure to open the airport within the specified timescale.

The regional government is busy preparing conditions for opening the bidding process to find a new concessionary who will operate the airport, and has been meeting with the agricultural sector to design a logistics centre which can help maximize the use of the airport by increasing freight shipments, and on Friday gained an agreement from Aena that it will not only be bidding to operate Corvera airport itself, but that it will guarantee the closure of San Javier within a specified time period once the new concessionary has been appointed. No details have yet been released about the deal, as the region’s politicians are all immersed in the PP pre-election pow-wow in Madrid this weekend, with election campaigning clogging up the news already.

Full report to be published on Monday.

However, this time the government agreement seems to be on a more formal footing than the last one four years ago and a working committee will agree the timescale of the closure, likely to be 6 months after Corvera opens, ensuring that there are not 2 airports in the same small region competing for the same traffic.
However, there’s still a long way to go and we’ve been here before, surprisingly, just before the last set of municipal elections!