The Spanish government rules out managing the Balearic Islands' airports: "They are not to blame for overcrowding."

PalmThe Spanish government is not considering the possibility of co-managing the Balearic Islands' airports with the regional government and considered it "a trap" to point to the infrastructure managed by Aena as the cause of tourist overcrowding.

This was stated by the Spanish government's delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, who believes that the government's request is intended to make it seem that the central government is responsible for the overcrowding. "I get the feeling that this view of Aena and these requests are partly to say that the blame for tourist overcrowding is not theirs, but rather Pedro Sánchez's government," he noted.

It was precisely Sánchez who, after the meeting with Prohens during his recent visit to Palma, hinted that the possibility of sharing airport management was remote, although it is an issue that has generated some consensus on both sides of the aisle.

"What I told the president was not co-management," Sánchez replied when a journalist mentioned the word in one of his questions. A somewhat ambiguous response that Rodríguez clarified: "What the president of the Spanish government said is that this was not on the table."

The government delegate also expressed the suspicion that the co-management demanded by the Balearic Islands seeks, in some way, to point to the airports as the cause of tourist overcrowding and as a tool to control flows.

"With this issue of overcrowding, Prohens has socialized the problems, but has not led a single solution," Rodríguez reproached. Far from persevering with this strategy, he proposed that the regional president should prevent the tourist offer from continuing to grow, which, in his opinion, is not happening with a Pact for Sustainability that "seems like cardboard cutouts." a decree to curb tourism that "allows 90,000 vacation rental spaces to be sold instead of declining"; and a land acquisition law that "puts an end to social housing" and will generate "huge profits for developers."