The general coordinator of Binter Canarias, Santiago Guerra, warned that the Canarian airspace begins to suffer from saturation which, if this continues, could even slow down the arrival of tourists in the archipelago in the future.
“Saturations are starting to occur because tourists generally come on certain days [principalmente en fines de semana]what makes airspace saturate and this concerns us all,” he explained.
In this sense, he compared the congestion of the airports with what is happening with the highways, since ten years ago the tourists who visited the archipelago “were not so numerous” but now there are more and , therefore, there are more flights that require time allocation at airports. . “And airports are what they are,” he added.
The possibility that the congestion could slow down the arrival of tourists, it would be something “worrying”, which is why she pleaded in favor of an expansion of airport infrastructure. He also recommended adapting to the number of flights currently operated to alleviate the situation and working on issues such as the expansion of time platforms, because, he added, “we can move forward.”
Regarding the future, Guerra also highlighted the challenges that arise due to the rate increase and economic fluctuations, because it is a variable, uncertain, changing and ambiguous environment.
The general coordinator of Binter Canarias celebrated that the archipelago is the “best” community connected“and that it has “a large number of airports and ports which connect the islands in a satisfactory manner”, which is why it is considered important to maintain the frequency of inter-island flights and the reduction for residents.
Guerra explained that the Canary Islands, being “an outermost archipelagic region, far from the mainland and in need of a series of services that, obviously, have fought over time through instruments and tools that have brought us a certain well-being. , such as the Canary Islands Jurisdiction, the Resident Discount for Travel, the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF) or the General Indirect Tax of the Canary Islands (IGIC), among others.
