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Nov 29, 2012 (newstodate): Dark clouds are piling over Sweden's Stockholm Skavsta Airport, owned and managed by the Spanish airport management company Albertis.
The airport's main 2,880m runway will need resurfacing within the coming three years, requiring an investment of some 80 mio Swedish Crowns that its owner seems unwilling to shoulder unless supported by either the commune or the Swedish state.
As this support is not forthcoming, the future of the airport seems to be in the balance unless other alternatives appear.
A sale of the airport is also less credible as the airport has not so far been able to produce a profit, running steadily in red figures.
Skavsta Airport's traffic today consists of low-cost operations by Ryanair and WIZZ Air, as well as a few charter operations that would disappear should a runway resurfacing lead to higher user charges.
Skavsta Airport earlier handled up to some 15,000 tonnes of cargo annually, but decided to pull out from the airfreight business altogether from 2009.
The airport's main 2,880m runway will need resurfacing within the coming three years, requiring an investment of some 80 mio Swedish Crowns that its owner seems unwilling to shoulder unless supported by either the commune or the Swedish state.
As this support is not forthcoming, the future of the airport seems to be in the balance unless other alternatives appear.
A sale of the airport is also less credible as the airport has not so far been able to produce a profit, running steadily in red figures.
Skavsta Airport's traffic today consists of low-cost operations by Ryanair and WIZZ Air, as well as a few charter operations that would disappear should a runway resurfacing lead to higher user charges.
Skavsta Airport earlier handled up to some 15,000 tonnes of cargo annually, but decided to pull out from the airfreight business altogether from 2009.