PP pushes for 75% parking discount for Fuerteventura residents

The cost of parking inside the airport, he emphasized, “represents another punishment for Majoreros simply for living on this island.”

The Popular Group in the Majorero Cabildo will present a motion at the next plenary session demanding that the Spanish Government and AENA introduce a 75 % discount on parking fees at Fuerteventura Airport for Canary Island residents, as well as reduced rates for airport employees.

The party recalled that the Parliament of the Canary Islands recently approved a similar initiative, driven by the Popular Party, which argued that “flying in the Canary Islands is not a luxury, but a necessity” and denounced airport parking as a genuine “mandatory toll” for citizens.

“This situation is especially serious on an island where many people depend on cars to reach the airport due to the lack of public transport, work schedules, and the geographic dispersion of numerous population centres,” said Claudio Gutiérrez, spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Cabildo.

The motion also highlights the plight of airport workers and auxiliary companies, accusing AENA of forcing them to pay “exorbitant” fees just to get to their jobs.

“Security, cleaning, maintenance, handling, commerce, catering, or airport assistance staff endure a daily added surcharge simply for parking their vehicle during their work shift,” Gutiérrez added.

He further argued that “it is incomprehensible that AENA obtains million‑dollar profits while economically punishing those who sustain the airport service every day.”

The proposal specifically calls for:

• A 75 % discount for Canary residents in airport parking, following the same criteria already applied to resident discounts on air and sea transport.
• The creation of free parking zones in the new areas AENA plans to develop near the airport, reserved for workers and auxiliary service companies.

The Popular Party contends that AENA’s current tariff policy ignores the ultra‑peripheral reality of the Canary Islands and the economic burden these costs place on families and workers in Fuerteventura.

“The Spanish Government and AENA must stop seeing the Canary Islands solely as a source of revenue and start understanding the real difficulties that insularity and double insularity pose for thousands of citizens who travel to the capital islands for medical care, work, or services that, unfortunately, we still lack on our islands,” Gutiérrez concluded.