Image: DPA | Sina Schuldt
- The Greens are particularly critical of short-haul flights from Bremen airport.
- Use as a purely corporate airport should be looked into.
- Mayor Bovenschulte clarifies: “No questions for me”.
Bremen Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) does not believe in controlling the end of passenger flights at Bremen Airport. The Bremen Greens formulated this plan in a draft election program for the state elections. The party is considering using the airport only as a working airport for Airbus and other aerospace companies. The initiative is primarily aimed at the numerous short trips to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Amsterdam. They would be superfluous if there were better rail connections.
Bovenschulte: “The airport remains a passenger airport”
Bovenschulte does not understand the advance of the Greens. When asked by buten un binnen, he explained that he didn’t care what was in any election program.
What matters to me is what the Senate decides. And in recent years he has always unanimously committed to the airport and has given massive financial support to operations during the pandemic. I don’t see this attitude changing.
Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD), mayor
In the draft electoral programme, the SPD-left coalition partner of the Greens also asks how much tax money still needs to be invested in the loss-making airport. Bovenschulte points out that the airport is of great importance for Bremen as a business location. Thousands of jobs depend on it. “Therefore, for me there is no doubt: the airport will also remain as a passenger airport.”
However, from the Greens’ point of view, the airport wouldn’t quite work without it. In the future, however, the Greens will primarily see it as a model location for the development of climate-neutral air traffic. The party wants to decide on its full electoral program for the citizenry on Saturday.
headwind of opposition
The opposition has also sharply criticized the Greens’ plans. The idea is completely absurd, says Christian Democrat Susanne Grobien. Just thinking about it weakens Bremen as a location. FDP Citizenship Deputy Hauke Hilz says that stopping passenger traffic means huge damage to the city’s economy and image.
This topic in the program:
Bremen Eins, News, November 24, 2022, 8pm
