jackytoo

We keep reading on here about all the AVE fast trains and all the "infrastructure". here is the downside...in photos. Now they want the rest of the eurzone to pay for it!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rack-ruin.html

anonimouse

Hey someone ought to tell Ryan air about this place, cheap landing fees

Anyway I bet Spain got the money from the EU, so probably didn't cost them a cent....easy come...easy go

agoreira

Unfortunately, it's not the only one to close.

Domino

Ryanair moved there after pulling out of Granada - and tried it for a year, an absolute flop even at €10 to Stansted with no other charges.. There is no additional infrastructure such as transport to/from airport. I considered it from Granada but it is only 1.5hrs to Malaga but min 5hrs to CR.

As yuo can see there are no services there, no cafe, no dutyfree, it is too far from Madrid or any other forms of habitation, the cabs wouldnt go out there, the AVE has an official station there but they don't want to stop as it mucks up their timetable. You can't get staff, nowhere to live.
I should imagine it is costing a fortune just for the security stopping the gypoes from nicking anything that moves or unscrews.

As to Sesena, just a pipe dream funded by over enthusiastic banks and builders who thought they were on to a money spinner - but same problems - no infrastructure, no shops, no local work, no transport in/out.
some flats have now been sold at silly low prices but it is a ghost town.

this is what optimism does when it takes off like a baloon, hits tree and bursts.

amideislas

I'd been led to believe this stuff doesn't happen in Spain.

Like the new €22M Pont Verde we have. Beautiful. Closed now, though.

Of course, it never happened. But I can't figure out why my contribucion has nearly doubled. The brother-in-law of the politician that dreamt up this scheme got his €22M. A handful of people got a few months' work, so I reckon it was all worth it.