The island president held a meeting yesterday with representatives of the employers’ associations, the main unions represented on the Island and with the opposition in the island Corporation (except Sí Podemos, contrary to this work) to stage the pressure and management before the Executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez, who they ask that on Tuesday it approves the DORA II including the demands raised by Tenerife. Martín assured that, together with the regional councilor for Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, he transferred to the central government all the documentation necessary to achieve this objective.
The political, social and business representatives agreed not only in highlighting the profitability of the Tenerife Sur Airport, but also that its terminal is “obsolete” and “inappropriate” for the tourist destination, as well as the need to have a project for the integral transformation from the airport complex located in Granadilla de Abona.
«It is time to demand. We demand that AENA give us what it owes us. They have been covering our mouths with small investments for years ”while Tenerife Sur operates with the same terminal as when it was inaugurated almost 43 years ago and has a second terminal, completed in 2009, never put into service. “We lose competitiveness”, but the next five-year investment plan allocates the money to the airports of Madrid, Barcelona and Mallorca, direct competitors of Tenerife. These reflections by the president of Ashotel, Jorge Marichal, were seconded by those present. “The Canary Islands cannot continue to ask someone who has participated by individuals,” he declared, referring to the private shareholding (49%) of AENA.
“What for AENA is to gain time, for the Canary Islands it is a drag on the development of its economy”, iThe president of the Chamber of Commerce, Santiago Sesé, called for “political decisions” and a public commitment from the state trading company. In his opinion, the solution for the Tenerife Sur Airport “is a matter of resources and sensitivity.”
Pedro Martín argued that the important thing is to send the message that “the vast majority of Tenerife society” wants, “finally”, a comprehensive airport project, with an overall vision, “and not another addition or patch.” The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife said that the next actions to be developed must arise from consensus, but specified that the masses are conditioned by the decision adopted by the Government of Spain at the meeting of the Council of Ministers, which is scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
