The Balearic Government chaired by Marga Prohens (PP) will require the central government of the Payment of the 810 million euros pending airlines for the resident discount. The vice president of the Autonomous Executive, Antoni Costa, will appear on Tuesday at the Parliament to demand Sanchez to The debt comes out with airlines for subsidies to residents of 75% in the price of tickets.
It is an initiative of the Balear support from other political forces to ensure the continuity of certain air routes and ensure that the citizens of the Balearic Islands «They let be second citizens».
And it is that the Association of Airlines (ALA) warned that the airlines that connect the Balearic Islands with the Peninsula and operate interislas flights could be forced to stop operating in some cases these routes or decrease frequencies “given the unsustainable situation and economic asphyxiation generated by the non -payment of the Executive.”
As of January 2025, the debt to the airlines operating these routes amounts to 810 million euros for the amounts advanced as a residents of 75% in the price of the tickets. TO THE Fear that this debt will rise to 1.5 billion This year with General State Budgets (PGE) extended if the government does not take measures.
The Association recalls that the airlines are mere intermediaries and that they are responsible for the execution of the program, acting as collaborating entities of the Administration, in accordance with the provisions of the regulations, applying the percentage of subsidy legally established at the time of the acquisition of the subsidized ticket, and subsequently liquidating before the administration, in this case the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC), the remaining amount, once the passenger has made the passenger object of the corresponding bonus.
The DGAC is responsible for managing the budget credits planned to deal with the subsidy and pay the amount of subsidies to air companies.
In summary, they explain in the statement collected by the agency Europa press, lAirlines apply the subsidy in the resident ticket that the government must later settle Through the DGAC, charged to an expandable loan of the general budgets and, in case of exceeding the amount consigned, you can be the object of expansion by the Ministry of Finance.
However, they have warned that The Executive has been delaying such liquidation for 2024increasing the amount owed to the airlines that provide these services and that today has not been fully liquidated by the administration despite the repeated requirements by wing.
