Congress Won’t Freeze Aena’s Fees

Airlines will have to pay more per passenger at airports across the state.

The plenary session of the Congress rejected, on Thursday, a proposal to freeze Aena’s airport fees in 2026. The attempt to freeze the fees sparked controversy with Ryanair, which withdrew its flights to the islands—a gap that has since been filled by other airlines.

The issue involved two measures introduced by the PP as amendments in the Senate to the Sustainable Mobility Law, which were later voted on in the Congress’s plenary session to determine their final inclusion in the text to be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).

The proposal to freeze Aena’s fees failed to pass because the PP secured support only from Vox, while the governing parties (PSOE, Sumar), Junts, ERC, Bildu, and PNV voted against it, and the BNG abstained.

Conversely, the amendment that restores the previous policy of compensation for flight delays succeeded, thanks to backing from Junts, ERC, Podemos, and BNG, despite opposition from PSOE and Sumar.