Construction of the Ezeiza mega terminal that Macri was unable to inaugurate will be completed

The government has announced that it will resume work at Ezeiza airport to finishr the new airport terminal, known as “zeppelin” for the design of its internal architecture. According to a press release from the Ministry of Transport, the works have already begun and will end in the first quarter of 2023, with a budget of 4,000 million pesos.

Much of the “zeppelin”, in fact, has already been built: it is an initiative of the previous e government Mauricio Macri wanted to inaugurate just before the October 2019 elections. But everything remained paralyzed on September 24 of that year: it was when a crane hooked a tubular structure that caused the workers who were working on a scaffold to fall. One of the foremen, José Bulacio, lost his life and 13 other workers were injured. Justice has paralyzed the works, and with the pandemic that arrived a few months later, everything has failed. Since then, the “Zeppelin” is a white elephant whose completion is still pending.

Now that the works have become a favorable setting for a visit by the Minister of Transport, alessio guerriero, to which just 24 hours earlier President Alberto Fernández had retained the role of minister for about an hour when the absorption of this portfolio by the Ministry of Public Works was already underway. It was decided by the Head of Cabinet that Transport will continue with ministerial rank “so as not to slow down management”. and warrior he went out to show himself with the helmet the next morning.

Each month, 470,000 average passengers pass through Ezeiza today. That’s less than the 600,000 in 2019, but the pace continues to increase from month to month. So far, most international airlines route the flow of passengers through Terminal A, opened more than 20 years ago. Another smaller terminal, C, dates back to the presidency of Cristina Kirchner, and is used by the flights of international airlines and some regional airlines. The Macri government’s plan was demolish that building and use the land to build a much larger one, similar to Zeppelin. For now, all of this it was in the papers.

Guerrera succeeded in the position of Transport to the deceased Mario Meoni and it is also part of the political space of Serge Massa. His tour also deserved another kind of political reading, not only because he is still a minister: moreover, he was projected onto a stage where until now the almost exclusive voice of command belongs to the group The Camporawhich controls Aerolineas Argentinas and also commands through its vice president, Ferdinand Murielin the National Regulatory Body of the National Airport System (ORSNA). Is massism progress in aviation policy coming?