The Government of Canary Islands has congratulated itself this Wednesday that the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) defends that airport tariffs must be reduced by 0.59% annually between 2027 and 2031, when Aena foresees an increase of 3.82% annually.
The Canary Islands Minister of Transport, Pablo Rodríguez (CC), recalled that this autonomous community had already "denounced that there was a very significant increase in airport taxes within the Aena airport network".
"We consider that this increase is tremendously unfair to the Canary archipelago, because it does not consider its condition as an outermost region and what air connectivity means" for this territory, where "it is not just another mobility, it is not another alternative, it is the only option its residents have to move around and the main element of connection with the outside world and with its economic engine", tourism, he referred.
Therefore, he said that the Canary Islands understand that these taxes are not "fair", especially because "their increase is much higher than the traffic increase itself or than the investments that will be allocated to the airports".
In Rodríguez's opinion, "what the Commission has come to say is that these tax increases are not justified because traffic increases will not be so pronounced, therefore, "simply with the increase that is already established and with a much more moderate and conservative increase, the planned investments would already be justified".
The minister thus rejected "the idea that Aena has, which seems more like a fundraising end in itself, than really a search for a balance, for a balanced system between investment and income for the company itself"
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