The director of Aena in the Canary Islands, Luis López, gave an interview last weekend about the company that manages the entire tourism circuit in the south of Gran Canaria, saying that the business generated by the island is confidential. This is the response through Canarias 7 from a technician from Madrid who questions the thesis of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Gran Canaria (which are elected by suffrage) regarding the extractive colony treatment that is provided to Gran Canaria. from the air transport bunker regulated by the Ministry of Transportation. The port of Las Palmas has a turnover of 80 million euros per year and every day the press of that capital dedicates a page of paper to its affairs. There are no business figures for the Gran Canaria Airport as a result of the information blackout imposed from Tenerife because Gando's figures finance loss-making airports that should have been closed for years, such as Los Rodeos. Is the first time in years that a director of Aena in the Canary Islands grants an interview although it would be perceived without the right to reply.
The Gran Canaria Airport is owned by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and it gave up its land, not for free, decades ago to Madrid in the Franco era before Aena was born. By taking Madrid to the state company Aena on the Stock Exchange, Madrid has placed the Gran Canaria assets as a financial product without consulting the Cabildo of Gran Canaria. Aena, according to data from the auditor KPMG, has a little more than 29 million euros allocated to the Canary Islands Investment Reserve and the Canary Islands Provision Fund. That property of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria is controlled by TCI Fund Management Ltd, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Norges Bank Investment Management, Veritas Asset Management LLP, Lazard Asset Management Pacific Co., Causeway Capital Management LLC, First Sentier Investors (Australia) IM Ltd., Massachusetts Financial Services Co and Magellan Asset Management Ltd. although with 51% of the Kingdom of Spain. For Aena, the fact that the Gran Canaria airport is owned by the island's government makes it panic to mention this matter and, in fact, in the land and buildings section of the reports filed with the CNMV, this financial accident is not even mentioned.
The interview, which would reveal the manufacture with a written form, to Canarias 7's question about Aena's annual accounts in Gran Canaria, answers that "as a listed company, all the economic and accounting information to which it is obliged is published. , which can be consulted on our public website" and that "the analytical accounts by airports are considered confidential, as deduced from Law 18/2014, and therefore, are not public, given that they may affect their economic and commercial interests". López Chapí, who was previously director of the Reina Sofía Airport in Tenerife, has rejected developing Gando's third runway.
Financial sources consulted by Maspalomas24H have pointed out that, according to the fiscal mechanics used and the number of operations and passengers that move, the Gran Canaria Airport would have had, saving the precautions resulting from the information blackout declared by Madrid, a total of income worth 242,4 million euros, of which revenue from passengers would be 143,6 million euros (59,6%), commercial revenues 84,4 million euros (34,8%) and rentals 14,4 million euros (5,9%). These data must be taken with great reserve because they are not official. Regarding main sources of income, airports would be 49,7%; shops and restaurants 23,7%, rental of commercial space 11,8% and slots 9,4%. These figures are made taking into account the precautions resulting from the information blackout declared by Madrid.
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