Andorra presents the project for its airport next to the Grau Roig ski slopes

The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (CCIS) has completed the technical feasibility studies for an airport at Pla d'Envalira. According to the current proposal, the airport would be located in the Valira d'Orient river valley and would have a runway 1,800 meters long, 45 meters wide and a security area replanted with native vegetation, and the cost of the infrastructure would be about 345 million euros.

Andorra Airport could receive Airbus 320 or Boeing 737 aircraft with a capacity of up to 150-180 passengers and a radius of action of 6,000 kilometres. Therefore, with options to cover routes to Dubai, Moscow or Kinshasa. The approach is that the facility can receive up to half a million passengers per year and that the first year of operation exceeds 300,000.

The project also includes the terminal, covered parking and other services. To carry out the first two technical studies of the project, the feasibility of flight procedures and infrastructure, the Chamber has had the advice of the companies NAVBLUE (of the AIRBUS Group) and CGX, experts in international aviation and in the construction of airports around the world. These documents will now be transferred to the Government, which will also be responsible for carrying out a series of phases to assess both the approval of the infrastructure and its environmental sustainability and economic viability.

From the Andorran Chamber of Commerce they continue to emphasize the need for the country to have an airport as a tool to unblock the country. Thus they defend that it will contribute,

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Moreover, they see that the positive impact of the infrastructure will be extrapolated to the entire Pyrenees region. And as for La Seu airport, they defend that,

"It will complement this economic boost, but it is not an alternative capable of giving this scope."

Within the framework of the 'unlocking' plan, the Chamber also continues to work to promote the train project. In this sense, they highlight that they have been able to verify "the shared interest with other international chambers of commerce" and point out that they are in talks with neighboring institutions to assess the possibilities of connection with France and Spain and establish a joint work team that facilitates communications with the rest of Europe. They emphasize that the train,

"which would have a significantly higher cost than the airport and a completion horizon of one or two decades, would require the political commitment of France and Spain, and the granting of European subsidies, since it would be developed in national and international territory, reducing the skills in administration and management. Even so, it would facilitate the entry of people and goods into the country, and it would be an advance in sustainable communications".