The socialist senator for Lanzarote, Manuel Fajardo Palarea, spoke on the morning of this Thursday before the microphones of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to clarify the situation of the Public Service Obligation (PSO) route between Lanzarote and Madrid to limit the prices of airline tickets.
One of the points of the agreement signed by the President of the Government of Spain in functions, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), and the Second Vice President of the Spanish Executive in functions, Yolanda Díaz (Sumar) includes a service route between Menorca and Barcelona. However, this agreement did not mention the already approved route between the Island of Volcanoes and the capital of the country, which is not yet underway.
"The route between Lanzarote and Madrid would be the pilot experience, in the Senate it was approved that all of the Canary Islands be within a consultation period to analyze said experience and be able to declare the Public Service Obligations", added Fajardo Palarea. In this way, with the experience between Lanzarote and Madrid, it is planned to analyze how it would influence the community regulatory framework and the effect of these obligations on the user market. This measure was promoted by the socialist senators of the Archipelago in the past legislature.
Manuel Fajardo Palarea has responded to the criticisms of the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort and the Popular Party in the Canary Islands and has revealed that if this route is not included in the pact between Sumar and the PSOE it is because it was approved by the Senate in the previous mandate.
"This is agreed by the Senate, you cannot talk about something being forgotten when it is already approved. If it was approved in the minutes of March 2023, why is it going to be put in a new pact", questioned the senator for Lanzarote. "Of course we are interested in lowering prices", he added.
"The truth is that a series of fictitious conflicts are created", he denounced.
Likewise, the socialist recalled that the National Commission of Markets and Competition glimpsed since 2020 that there could be "an agreement of wills between the airlines, which raised prices and who is harmed is us, but also the State, because it pays 75%".
