German DFS and Italian Enav will be at the top of the starting table in the race to win the contract to manage air navigation services at three major airports in the region.: one from Gran Canaria and two from Tenerife. The two multinationals will compete with Spanish companies to win the tender from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, as they take for granted in the commercial aviation industry. saerco And airway. Behind the latter is the venture capital fund Portobello CapitalThe same person who boasted of managing 1,900 million euro assets on his website, which did not hinder the Government. Pedro Sanchez approved of course, the rescue of many of the invested institutions entrusted to the public treasury.
The Canary Islands Administration has yet to announce the Ministry’s intention to privatize air traffic control services (ATS) at the three capital airports. Bilbao, Malaga, Palma and Santiago format package of the seven people the central government wants to get rid of from their rule. However, the Executive Board, chaired by Ángel Víctor Torres, Examining the draft ministerial order to see its possible scope in the islands. It should not be forgotten that one of the historical demands of the Autonomous Community is to participate in the administration. they Airports that are among the snowiest airports in Spain. the same Sebastian FrancisThe Transport Minister had already warned last November that he does not intend to abandon the effort to achieve airport co-management, even though it has some regulatory protection in the Autonomy Statute and the Economic and Financial Regime (REF). special economic constitution archipelago It openly accepts the “differential treatment” that the state should give to airports.means, inter alia, “the participation of the Autonomous Community institutions in the planning of the airport system”.
The two major island nationalist parties are firmly committed to it. From Coalición (CC) they describe the intention to privatize the control towers of Tenerife and Gran Canaria as a “disgrace” and do not believe in the “silence” of the regional Executive while they are from the Nueva Canarias (NC) parliamentary group. in a more restrained tone in line with the party’s participation in the self-government, They rejected the “piecemeal” privatization of airports. Among the critics of the Interior Ministry’s plans Raquel Sanchez Jimenez Then there are the unions and air traffic controllers, even professionals who already work in privatized towers—among them. Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma– Strikes due to disputes with ATS management companies: saerco And FerroNATS.
As a result, the contradictory situation at airports that have already privatized air traffic control did not prevent the Ministry from continuing its work. road mapand this is in the years when the PSOE opposed his government Mariano Rajoyhas flatly rejected any measures meant to deepen the policy of privatizing the airport service. In one way or another, The imminent publication of the draft ministry decree does not invite anyone to think that the Sánchez government is willing to back down.. And Saerco and FerroNATS will be there again to bid on the contract or contracts. Or rather, Saerco and Skyway, which is now the latter’s name after an operation that angered air traffic controllers.
In essence, the Council of Ministers Last June, the mutual fund approved the bailout of several investors. private equity Portobello, including the Vivanta dental clinic and the Blue Sea hotel. Months later – on February 1st of this year – it turned out that Portobello bought 100 percent of FerroNATS through the company Serveo; And Just ten days later, the central government’s intention to privatize the towers of seven other airports, including the three island airports, emerged.. Serveo-Skyway and Saerco, of course, will have to fight the giants DFS and Enav, who were very upset when they realized that they were removed for no reason in the initial process of privatizing the control towers (they did not pass the first screen).