Sevenair resumes on Friday the regional air connection between Bragança and Portimão, interrupted since March 3, said the company on Thursday.
The communication was made through a statement on social networks and confirmed by the agency Lusa with the company administration.
“Tomorrow [sexta-feira]March 21, we return to our daily air connection activity between Bragança, Vila Real, Viseu, Cascais and Portimão ”, reads in the publication, which also informs that it is already possible to make travel reserves.
Carreia Trás-os-Montes/Algarve has been interrupted by restrictions imposed, since March 3, by the Municipal Company Cascais Dynamic, due to the non-payment of an alleged debt of the Sevenair company, responsible for the connection.
At question was a divergence about a supposed debt of ‘handling’ rates, the services provided with the plane grounded, in the amount of 107 thousand euros plus VAT (or a debt of 132,471.95 euros, according to the municipality) that the dynamic Cascais required, but that the carrier considered “not due”.
This Thursday to Lusa agency, Carlos Amaro, from the airline administration, confirmed that they paid the rescue of the plane, which was retained in the Tires Aerodrome.
The company said it paid the amount of more than 130 thousand euros that was requested. The same source reiterated, however, that they will go to the court with the case because they consider that, according to the law in force, the debt was improperly charged.
Previously, in a statement, Sevenair had mentioned that she questioned the National Civil Aviation Authority (Anac) about the legality of the assistance rate, by operating in a “self -assistance regime” with a company, but the regulatory entity concluded that the rate “is due by assistance service providers or ceasing self -assistance.
The company responsible for the regional public air connection, however, has accepted the tax rates in the Cascais Municipal Aerodrome when the State reimbursing the amount of debt related to the service, “to return to the operation”.
“Sevenair prefers to exhaust the legal means that are assisted to speak at the end. However, as the speed of justice does not accompany and reality, we accept to pay what they demand, as soon as the state reimburses what owes us, to return to the operation,” the transporter’s administration had already stated during this interruption in a statement to which Lusa had access.
This Monday, Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing said Lusa that it was expected to pay in the coming days to pay Sevenair 660.5 thousand euros, related to the fourth and last year of the previous concession agreement of the Bragança-Portimão Public Regional Air connection, being missing values of direct adjustments made.
The aircraft is expected to leave Thursday afternoon of Tires to return to Bragança, and thus be able to start the journey until Portimão Friday morning.
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