Azores Airlines privatisation “increasingly murky” – PCP

The PCP (Communist Party of the Azores) said today that the privatisation of Azores Airlines, the company responsible for external flight connections to the archipelago, constitutes “a serious blow to autonomy”, considering that the sale process is “increasingly opaque”. “The PCP Azores has been stating that the much vaunted and now announced privatisation is an increasingly opaque process: a few months ago the deadline for submitting proposals for privatisation had been postponed, with a large number of interested parties announced, and after all, only two consortia appear now, whose proposals should be reshaped ” because they are so close in value …