New Zealand Herald, 04 June 2018 – A global airline body has taken a swipe at privatised airports, saying they have delivered ”far too many bitter” experiences.
The International Air Transport Association’ s director general Alexandre de Juniac said the aviation sector faced a capacity crisis but private airports were not the necessarily the answer.
Governments around the world struggled to build quickly and with a shortage of funds many were looking to the private sector for solutions.
”We need more airport capacity. But be cautious. Expecting privatisation to be the magic solution is a wrong assumption,” he said at IATA’s annual meeting in Sydney. Read more…