The calculation has been carried out since July 14 and is updated every second on the electronic meter inaugurated today on the 2nd ring road in Lisbon, next to Humberto Delgado Airport, as a result of a study by CTP with EY.
“Last year we started a study at Ernst & Young [EY] to try to measure the impact of an airport inaction and we immediately thought of the idea of putting this counter, which was already on our ‘site’, so that people in general and the political power in particular could have an idea of the cost of not making a decision on the airport,” CTP president Francisco Calheiros said in statements to journalists in Lisbon.
Since July and today until 4.30 pm, the figure is close to 650 million euros, the result of an analysis in which all “stakeholders” (interested parties) participated, namely travel agencies, hotels, aviation, airports, animation, catering, among others.
“We calculated how many frequencies we lost [devido à falta de ‘slots’]what is the average traffic and average spending per tourist” to determine the number published, he explained.
Source: DN
