Aena assured that the amendments incorporated by the PP this Wednesday in the Senate to the law on sustainable mobility will force it to “re-examine” the investment plan of the airport manager, which in September amounted to 9,991 million euros between 2027 and 2031. This plan includes the modernization of its 48 national facilities.
As reported to the National Commission for the Securities Market (CNMV), for Aena these changes would “disfigure the economic coherence” of the company, since the popular proposal to freeze airport taxes between 2027 and 2031 would have “harmful effects on the Spanish airport system”.
This Wednesday, the full Senate gave the green light to the Sustainable Mobility Law, with 86 PP amendments, including a freeze on airport taxes and another amendment to launch a new incentive plan to boost regional airports.
The approval of this bill with amendments in the Senate, and which also includes thirty other initiatives from other groups, implies that the project must return to Congress, where the PSOE and the so-called investiture bloc will predictably reject the PP’s contributions and ratify the text they have agreed upon.
However, Aena stressed that, if these amendments were approved by Congress, the new provision would force the company “to re-examine the regulated investment proposal of 9,991 million to adapt the new investment proposal to the (unjustified) fee cap of the legislative amendment”.
It also specifies that, if it goes ahead, the company “would have to review the volume of investments, its composition for airports and materials, and its execution program” in the face of an amendment that would “unfoundedly impose” this review.
For this reason, the airport manager defended that the investment plan presented on September 18 is the result of a “careful, arduous and thorough technical preparation process carried out exclusively by professionals and experts” of the company.
