The senator will take to Plenary the incorporation of an additional provision to the Law to improve the management of transport and infrastructures included in the measureMadrid, on September 9, 2021The senator for the Autonomous Community, Fernando Clavijo, will take to the Plenary of the Upper House an initiative that allows to regulate by law the "abusive" price that Aena maintains to the commercial premises of the airports and that, in the case of the Canary Islands, it would mean "being able to save the 2,500 jobs that depend on the activity in the 8 airports of the Islands".

The senator will defend this measure that did not get the majority support today, including the socialist parliamentary group, in the Transport Committee.Clavijo appealed to all political groups to incorporate an additional provision to the Law amending Law 16/1987, of July 30, on the Regulation of Land Transport in terms of infractions related to the rental of vehicles with driver and to fight against late payment in the field of the transport of goods by road, as well as rules to improve management in the field of transport and infrastructure, to "correct an injustice that is being committed with all those people who had rented spaces in airports until the arrival of the pandemic and who paid a rent based on air traffic, income that Aena intends to continue charging in full despite what has been experienced in recent months and that the pre-Covid air traffic figures have not yet recovered". The nationalist senator reproached that an agreement has not been reached and that the Government of Spain "has not mediated". In this context, he added, "the answer to citizens cannot be to go to justice. That is not what is expected of an administration, in this case, of the State and of Aena." He also recalled that the Courts have given the reason to the tenants "up to 4 times, but the situation remains stagnant and generating great uncertainty that could fully affect more than 14,000 workers throughout Spain and 2,500 only in the Canary Islands". Fernando Clavijo claimed that "we have lived and we are in an exceptional situation. It is not logical that Aena intends to charge the same for rents to a business located in an airport through which 4 million passengers passed before Covid and through which 3,000 people now pass. It is neither logical nor fair", so he insisted on the need to "approve legal tools that allow Aena to force Aena to adjust rents and thus protect tenants". The nationalist senator pointed out that we are facing "an abuse of power" and recalls that "the fall in passengers has been motivated by a pandemic and by the health restrictions imposed by the administrations, such as those derived from the state of alarm" and rejected that neither Aena nor the Government of Spain "attend to reasons to safeguard this economic fabric and thousands of jobs".