"Canarios Sin Alas" asks for "reasonable price" on the Lanzarote-Madrid pilot flight

The group "Canarios Sin Alas" (Wingless Canarians) demands "a reasonable price" for the pilot test of public service obligation (PSO), which will be implemented on flights between Lanzarote and Madrid.

In a statement, this group of Canary Islanders residing outside the archipelago indicates that it will request a meeting with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda "to learn firsthand the status of the test and communicate our position."

It points out that "after more than six years of struggle" it hopes that the result of this pilot test will be satisfactory, and that the European Union will validate it within the Regional and Cohesion Policy of the Outermost Regions (ORs) "to begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel."

"Canarios Sin Alas" emphasizes that it is not against the 75% discount for Canary Islands residents, but against "deregulation" in prices, which has led to "a significant increase" in tickets, "a considerable increase" in the state's budgetary expenditure for the subsidy and "a distancing" of residents in the peninsula from the archipelago.

"Unfortunately, and especially for Canarians who live on the peninsula, it becomes unfeasible for us to travel to the Canary Islands on certain dates due to an emergency, family need, work issues, health or personal matters," it denounces.

"Even more painful if possible" it is for separated families with minor children, the group points out, which insists on demanding a solution that "ends the suffering of so many families and the impossibility of complying with their visitation or shared custody arrangements."

"Canary Islands residents have consolidated the right to a discount to travel by plane or boat and bring them closer to the peninsula. Let's also now secure the right for those who one day left for work, family, studies... to return and maintain ties with their land and be closer to the Canary Islands," the note concludes.