The privatization process of the AENA network airports began years ago. In fact, it was the PSOE who started it and proposed the privatization plan. The same party that created social dumping in the Spanish State, which is linked to the Labor Reform, implemented by those pseudo-socialists and which has been "rounded off" by the Popular Party.
For some years now, especially after suffering the management of Blanco (PSOE), at the head of the Ministry of Development, only 8 Spanish airports reported profits, out of a network of almost 60 aerodromes available for commercial aviation. It was clear that this scarce 11% of bases making profits and almost 90% making losses requires taking measures.
Already at that time, among the 8 that gave profits there were 3 from the Canary Islands. Those of Lanzarote, Gando and Tenerife South. Which means that in the case of the Archipelago, more than a third of the airports are profitable.
Today they continue to have a positive balance, despite the fact that during the last 3 years, AENA has reduced services in all of them, even removing, for example, ambulances and medical services, when not using international regulations that "do not require" cutting, to the brave cut that allows the new labor legislation of Spain and that has created some crazy levels of unemployment in the Archipelago, unbearable for any other population.
Since then, the Government of the Canary Islands has remained impassive, allowing our airports to lose category and services to the user, suffering price increases, due to outrageous state tax burdens and ignoring the calls for help from workers, whose staff has decreased considerably.
Now it seems that the time has come for Ribero and his gang. They were preparing to "buy" low. When there have been salary cuts, layoffs, precarious early retirements; increasing the costs of users and the quality that can be expected at the entrance doors of a good tourist destination.
From my point of view, in the Canary Islands, due to our territorial fragmentation and what the plane means, even for the most common population, such an essential service as air transport should not be privatized. But I am terrified to think that the management will be in the hands of that political part, which has repeatedly shown to walk where the capital marks, moving away, most of the times -if not always-, from the general interest.
Therefore, I conclude believing that it would be good if both Ports and Airports passed into the hands of the Government of the Canary Islands, but the best thing would be that in the political panorama that the 2015 elections mark, the PP, the PSOE and those of Coalición disappeared from the Canary Islands, so that this public management would be carried out with sufficient coherence, as to make us all believe that the general interest is truly being watched over.
