Labour MEP Alfred Sant, speaking out against an airport for Gozo, said that “I am amazed how the plan for an airport in Gozo found the support of so many Gozitan businessmen.”

“In no way can I see how airplane flights, with or without a regular schedule to carry passengers between Malta and Gozo and back, can be commercially viable,” he said.

Writing on Facebook, the MEP said that “the proposal that this is feasible is much less credible than the one that was false from the beginning, that of the fast ferry service where two companies competing between Malta and Gozo were expected to make profits.”

Sant went on to say, “the fact that such a project will necessarily fail (if it is ever launched) is being ignored by everyone.”

Sant concluded his Facebook post by saying, “in the meantime, more land from the Gozitan countryside will be eaten up and destroyed, so that after the collapse of the project, a residential block will be erected in its place, another commercial block, and around them will arise a thousand requests for Çikku and Peppu to be allowed to erode more in the agricultural land let them build – not to mention the building barons!”

“Gozo deserves more respect.”

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