The president of AshotelJorge Marichal, denounces the “terrible” image that the Tenerife South Airport is offering as a result of the queues to take a taxi and has proposed that there be no restrictions on taxi licenses in this infrastructure and that vehicles that are not Granadilla de Abona They can also cover the departure service.
In an opinion article, Jorge Marichal indicates that the history of the Tenerife South Airport “is beginning to be quite tiresome”, because “when it seems that the project for a new terminal is underway, we face several organizational deficits, from the control of passports for non-EU citizens, especially for those from the United Kingdom, our main source market, to the long lines to take a taxi.”
Jorge Marichal pointed out that this week they have publicly demanded “an urgent solution to the operational chaos that occurs at certain times in an infrastructure of insular and regional interest,” and precisely for this reason they have said from Ashotel that the airports of the Islands “must be really a sensitive area, just like the ports, not just on paper.”
The president of Ashotel believes that there should be no restrictions on taxi licenses in this infrastructure and that if a vehicle that is not from Granadilla wishes to cover an exit service from the Airport to another point on the Island, it can do so without that specific reservation for the passengers. taxis from the municipality where Tenerife Sur is located, “as if it were a privilege.” He remembers that this infrastructure “is paid for with taxes from all Spaniards, not just those who reside in Granadilla.”
This declaration of a sensitive area, according to the president of the employers’ association, “has not translated, in any way, into solutions to the queues suffered by tourists and residents and, in general, users of the Tenerife South Airport” and he recalls that in summer, Furthermore, “there is a high percentage of elderly tourists who, after four or five hours on a plane, must wait the same for a taxi, after first getting through the passport queue.”
Marichal maintains that the fact that taxis that are not from Granadilla leave clients at the airport and return empty or vice versa, that they pick up passengers at the airport, leave them at their hotels and cannot pick up clients again at that time point “goes precisely against what Europe advocates for the decarbonization of the transport sector.”
