Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) guarantees the investment of more than 500 million euros to improve the two airports in Tenerife. The senator and secretary general of the PSOE from Tenerife, Pedro Martin, after meeting with those responsible for AENA. Martín was “very satisfied” with the state of the agreements that were signed in the last term, when he was president of the Tenerife Council, and what these represent more than 500 million euros for the Tenerife North and Tenerife South airports. “I am satisfied because AENA has confirmed to us that the investments we worked so hard on in the last legislature will go forward to definitively transform the island’s airports,” Martín assured.
The leader of the Tenerife socialists pointed out after the meeting that a group of senators from Canary Islands held in the Senate with the president of AENA, Maurici Lucena, and with the executive vice president, Javier Marín, with the aim of taking stock of the airport situation of each of the islands and of the Canary Islands as a whole. The socialists present at the meeting were, in addition to Pedro Martín, the senator for Gran Canaria, Ramón Morales; the senator for Fuerteventura, Paloma Hernández and the senator for La Palma, Kilian Sánchez.
Pedro Martín recalls that during his term as president of the Cabildo, a “historic” agreement was reached with AENA that allows for “an important” boost to the improvement of the connectivity of the Island, an agreement that exceeds 500 million euros for improvements both at the Tenerife North airport as well as in Tenerife South. “This investment responds to a long process of work and coordination with AENA to determine the needs plan of Tenerife airports, modernize the facilities and provide better services to passengers,” said Martín.
As for Tenerife North, AENA will expand the inter-island connections area and the baggage claim area, as well as improve the facilities in the passport control area. The representatives of AENA explained to the senators that the procedure has already begun for the bidding of engineering teams that want to opt for drafting the project.
In the case of Tenerife-Sur, the agreement establishes the complete remodeling of the terminal, the improvement of access and parking areas or the optimization of both arrivals and departures areas. “In short, do a complete remodeling of an outdated airport, something that Tenerife society has been demanding for more than a decade,” explains Pedro Martín, who is “satisfied” because AENA “has confirmed that there is already a company working on the project to, finally, be able to put out to tender the works that will have a value of no less than 300 million euros.
Pedro Martín highlights that the work that was carried out in the last mandate, between the previous government team that he led in the Tenerife Council and AENA, “has made it possible to make a lot of progress so that the Island has the airport infrastructure it deserves.”
