Bergerac’s Roumanière airport is to be closed for 3 months from 9 January until the end of March 2012.

The entire 2.13 kilometre runway is to be re-surfaced following a serious of dangerous fissures in the tarmac.  There remains a question mark over how the work is to be funded, given the current crisis in public finances.  So far €80,000 has been spent on small repairs since the cracks began to appear two years ago, but the cost of laying the new 8 cm thick runway will be €3.5 million.