President Illa has assured that the agreement on the airport governance of Catalonia is imminent and that the Government's presence in decision-making and in the planning of major infrastructure is assured. Good news, as the precedents are not very encouraging. The Spanish and Basque governments agreed at the end of March on Euskadi's participation in the management of Euskadi's airports. Although, according to the lehendakari, the agreement included the creation of a bilateral body as an "instrument of collaboration, coordination and management" and the capacity to issue binding reports, the Ministry of Transport was quick to deny it. Today, the president of AENA, Maurici Lucena, told the general shareholders' meeting that there would be no transfers and that co-management is an "impossible" demand.In reality, the creation of a body formed by the Spanish and Catalan governments with the capacity to manage airports of general interest presents no technical problem, but rather a political will issue. As the Constitutional Court has recalled (STC 68/1984, 204/2002), it would be ideal if it were done through an organic law of transfer, since these types of airports are the exclusive competence of the State. José María Aznar limited himself to modifying an ordinary law such as the State Ports Law of 1992 to cede the management of ports and create a shared management body (Law 62/1997), and no one complained.That it is a political issue is also demonstrated by the fact that airports are more of a lucrative business than a transport infrastructure: they are a first-class factor in economic development and territorial revitalization, whose impact is estimated at between 2 and 3% of GDP and at 3,000 direct jobs per million passengers. Therefore, not only territories but also cities show a growing interest in playing a relevant role in their management. On the contrary, the Spanish airport management model, designed in 1990 with the creation of AENA, continues to be a radial model that revolves around this highly centralized entity, which acts as airport manager, service provider, and even regulator.Thus, while what works in the world are formulas for airports to operate as competing companies, in Spain, under the pretext that they are of general interest, they are networked. Minister Óscar Puente insisted on this the day before yesterday in a debate in Congress. This fact may have some logic in Finland, where Helsinki airport concentrates more than 90% of the traffic, but not in Spain, where the airport with the most volume (Barajas) concentrates around 20%.