Congress will immediately debate an opposition centre proper Partido Popular initiative calling on the federal government to halt the 6.5% improve that airport authority Aena plans to use to its airport charges in 2026 in order to not hurt the competitiveness of airports and the tourism sector. Congress will look at and vote on a non-legislative proposal registered by Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP celebration within the Industry and Tourism Committee for this goal.
The PP believes that a rise in charges would ‘discourage’ the expansion of visitors by airways to Spanish areas and airports, particularly these with a low-cost mannequin that search to optimise their working prices with a purpose to information their business insurance policies and function as competitively as potential. This is much more so when Aena made a report revenue of €1.9342 billion in 2024 and the federal government pocketed greater than €746 million in dividends from its stake within the firm. With the deliberate improve, the corporate would earn an extra €220 million in income.
The Airline Association (ALA) has already slammed the 6.5% improve in airport charges set by Spanish airport authority Aena for the 2026 monetary yr, and has referred to as for the following Airport Regulation Document (DORA III), which can regulate the interval 2027-2031, to incorporate new regulatory limitations that may permit a return to a path of tariff reductions just like that of the final decade.
ALA mentioned that this downward development in charges was not the results of the airport operator’s needs, whose preliminary proposal envisaged cumulative will increase of 10.1% between 2017 and 2021 (1.94% per yr) and 17.6% between 2022 and 2026 (3.29% per yr). However, the restrictions imposed by the sixth transitional provision of Law 18/2014, in power between 2015 and 2025, restricted these will increase.
‘The expiry of this authorized limitation has opened the door to an extreme improve of 6.5% for 2026,’ the affiliation warned in an announcement. ALA president Javier Gándara has argued that this regulation has allowed a coverage of freezing or decreasing airport prices yr after yr – except for 2024 – with out negatively affecting Aena’s income. Aena closed 2024 with a report revenue of €1.934 billion and has distributed almost €5 billion in dividends since its IPO in 2015.
And Ryaniar has already reacted. Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary has indicated that he might scale back one other million seats on flights to Spain subsequent summer season if Spanish airport operator Aena doesn’t decrease airport prices following the introduced 6.5% improve.
