The cap protected the State, not the Madeirans
This opinion article criticizes the way some Madeiran political officials have approached the issue of the air mobility law. The author highlights that there is an inconsistency in the behavior of these officials: they quickly find the courage to scare the Madeirans, but are slow to confront those who truly hold power and harm the region.
For a long time, according to the author, a simple narrative was sold to the Madeirans about the change to the air mobility law. This narrative warned that without the existence of a price cap, costs would skyrocket, airlines would abandon the region, and Portuguese tourists would stop visiting Madeira.
The author questions this narrative and suggests that the price cap did not protect the interests of the Madeirans, but rather the interests of the State. The implicit message is that Madeiran political officials have been instrumentalized or have allowed themselves to be manipulated by this dynamic, rather than truly defending the interests of the region's population.
The article is incomplete, ending abruptly in the middle of a sentence, but it conveys a criticism of the Madeiran political class and the way it has handled the air mobility issue in the autonomous region.
