The airport Tenerife South will be a sensitive area and taxi drivers from any municipality on the Island who come with passengers will be able to pick them up when there are queues. Coordination with AENA, to have the flight schedule updated at all times, will allow this situation to be anticipated and the increase in municipal licenses will improve the service on a daily basis. This was agreed yesterday by the Cabildo, the town councils of Granadilla de Abona and San Miguel de Abona, the taxi drivers of both municipalities and the Regional Taxi Federation of Canary Islands (Fedetax).
To this end, the Cabildo will urgently process the classification of the Tenerife South Airport as a sensitive area, as well as the preparation and development of the Regulations that will regulate it and give legal certainty to this way of working. Its entry into force will require several months of procedures, those legally established, including a hearing, initial approval, public exhibition and final approval.
“The situation requires that it be done with a certain diligence and haste,” explained the president of the Island corporation, Rosa Davila, who advocated for the emergency procedure. It highlighted “the predisposition, agreement and willingness of all parties to provide the best possible service.” She highlighted and thanked that the sector put “a proposal” on the table, the basis of the agreement they reached yesterday. Taxi drivers, town councils and the Cabildo, as an administration competent in the matter, “we are committed to it.”
Juan Artiles, president of Fedetax, defended that the proposal proposed by the sector “is good for customers, for taxi drivers and, above all, we try to consider that the solution given today does not become a problem tomorrow,” as It happens at other airports, he pointed out. Endorse the public service and guarantee that the taxi drivers of Granadilla de Abona and San Miguel de Abona “maintain the prevalence or acquired rights”, while at the same time “The rest of the island’s taxis can, at specific times, help alleviate the wait for customers who visit us,” is another objective of the agreement. The situation is not resolved by increasing the number of licenses (the two affected municipalities are working on this), he clarified..
In his capacity as spokesperson for the sector, he specified: “The proposal is that the taxis of San Miguel and Granadilla are the ones that will provide the service on a daily basis in a regular and legal manner and, exceptionally, when demand peaks are recorded and once the Regulations and the sensitive area being declared, this will begin to be applied, not before. Temporarily, the taxi service at the Tenerife South Airport remains in current conditions, although the Mobility area of the Cabildo has committed to seeking eventual measures while the regulations regulating the sensitive area come into force.
The mayor of San Miguel, Arturo, also participated in the meeting. Gonzalez; the Councilor for Transport of Granadilla, Carmen Rodríguez, as well as the municipal representatives of the sector and of Fedetax Tenerife, Francisco Cabrera.
