AENA begins the process to completely remodel the Tenerife Sur airport terminala project highly demanded by public administrations and businessmen in the south of the island. The public company that manages Spanish airports announced yesterday through a statement that has put out to tender the drafting of the project for the new passenger buildingwhose conditions were approved by the AENA Board of Directors. The winning company will receive 6.3 million euros to design the new facilities of the Reina Sofía.
AENA launches this ambitious plan, which will involve an initial investment of more than 300 million euros, as announced by the Minister of Transport and Mobility, Raquel Sánchez, on May 25 during the inauguration of the largest expansion of the Tenerife airport to date. As detailed by the public company, this new project started yesterday “will involve the integration of the entire area Tenerife South terminalboth from an architectural point of view and with the environment itself».
Among the improvements planned, and pending the drafting of the final plan, are the organization and execution of new car parks and entrances, the review of the urbanization and landscaping, the adaptation of the baggage claim room, the extension of the billing and shipping or the incorporation of more commercial services. It is, therefore, a complete remodeling that will involve the configuration of a new main building.
One of the main people responsible for AENA committing to creating a new terminal at Tenerife Sur airport is the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife. Peter Martin yesterday showed its satisfaction with the announcement of the start of the bidding process. For the island president, “there is compliance with AENA’s commitment to the Cabildo and the island of Tenerife for the drafting of the project that allows the execution of this remodeling of the improvement works, with an initial investment of 6.3 million euros ».
Complementary services
“Before the end of the year, 1.7 million euros will be added for complementary services,” added Martín. In total, 8 million euros to commission a project that will involve, in its execution, an initial investment of more than 300 million euros, which can reach around 400 million. “It is an economic effort that will allow us to have a real airport, that gives an adequate image of the Tenerife destination, that gives a functional response to the needs and that improves the experience of anyone who uses it, those who visit us and those who we live here”, stressed the socialist political leader.
The president emphasized that this is “magnificent news, which responds to the commitment that we had agreed on, and that we had been demanding for so many years.” Martín highlights that the remodeling of the airport “is one of the priority projects for the Island on which we have been working from the Cabildo.” “The beginning of the process of this key action shows that these two years of negotiations with the Cabildo de Tenerife are already bearing fruit,” he remarked. “These were negotiations in which the different social and economic agents of Tenerife, as well as the town councils, especially those of the South region, who have been waiting for the execution of this action for years, have been involved in a very important way”, Pedro Martín highlighted.
During his visit to the Tenerife South airport on May 25, Minister Raquel Sánchez announced that the new terminal will cost more than 300 million euros and that the works are expected to begin in 2027, with the next five-year investment plan of AENA, the airport regulation document (DORA III). In any case, the amount of the final investment will be conditioned by the project itself, in whose execution “no expense will be spared”, as Pedro Martín, president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, assured the mayors of the South that day.
That day the new connection building and Terminal 2, whose construction had been completed in 2008, came into service. The new terminal, conceived and designed to serve 4,000 passengers every hour, was built after an investment of 39.1 million euros. These 21,400 square meters house 32 check-in counters. That investment required a supplement of 6.1 million euros to make this terminal functional and operational.
Link Terminal and T2
The expansion of the Tenerife South airport, which makes up the Link Terminal and T2, focused an important part of AENA’s efforts during DORA I on Canarian airports, in which investments totaled 428 million euros and with which it exceeded 9% of the initially planned investment.
Having a new main terminal in the Reina Sofía is a demand that the political and economic agents of the South have been raising for more than a decade. A fact that Pedro Martín highlighted when alluding to “the important role played in this process by both the economic and social agents of Tenerife and the mayors of the region themselves, especially, who have not ceased to demand facilities that are up to what the island needs.
