AENA considers that it does not incur in any breach with respect to the state of the works that are carried out in the Tenerife South Airport currently, nor in terms of the commitment that links this joint venture with the design of a new terminal for the same site. “It is within the committed period, which is during the first half of 2022”, authoritative sources point out. This contradicts what was stated by the president of the Forum Friends of the South of Tenerife (FAST), José Fernando Cabrera, who criticized the lack of news regarding the draft of the specifications that will govern the call for an international ideas competition for the new terminal of the South Airport five months after the commitment was made.
While AENA understands that it has until June to do so, the concern that Cabrera transmits is motivated by the silence on the subject in the time that has elapsed since the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Isabel Pardo de Vera, made such a commitment. She did so during a meeting held with the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Canary Islands Government, Sebastian Franquis; the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Peter Martin, and representatives of the main business associations. The meeting was held on October 18 at the Hotel Mencey.
Pardo de Vera then said that the central government guarantees that AENA will increase the budget to draw up the project for the new Tenerife Sur Airport terminal included in the 2022-2026 investment plan (DORA II). Increase that will reach up to the amount necessary to design an installation “without ostentation or inefficiency”. The bidding document will include the demands and specificities proposed by the institutions and the economic and social agents of the Island.
In addition, AENA maintains that the completion of the link building between the two terminals is also on time. The last public announcement indicated that its commissioning would take place in the first quarter of this year, like Terminal 2.
