At the moment, only taxis from the city of Murcia are allowed to pick up and drop off passengers at Murcia Airport. Because of this, Jesús Giménez Gallo, the spokesperson for MC Cartagena, will ask the City Council to make a motion at its plenary session today, Friday December 19th. He will ask the regional administration to quickly set up a Joint Service Area at Corvera Airport. Taxi drivers from all the nearby municipalities, such as Cartagena, San Javier, La Unión, Torre Pacheco, San Pedro del Pinatar, Los Alcázares, Fuente Álamo, Mazarrón, and Águilas, as well as any more municipalities that want to join, would be able to use this region.
They also want the municipal corporation’s support to push the local government to actively support this demand and to defend an equitable management model before the Autonomous Community that guarantees free competition among professionals in the sector in a regional infrastructure “financed by all.”
The city spokesperson also says that the administrations and professional taxi associations should start talking right away about how the Joint Service Area will work. This will “guarantee an efficient, fair, and adequate service to the real needs of airport users.”
Giménez Gallo says that Murcia Airport is a regional infrastructure that is paid for by public funds from all the municipalities in the Autonomous Community. However, taxi drivers from the municipality of Murcia are the only ones who can use the taxi service at these facilities. “This is a clear case of discrimination against professionals in the sector from our region,” he says.
The MC leader says that cab drivers in Cartagena, like those in San Javier, Torre Pacheco, San Pedro del Pinatar, or Fuente Álamo, “have the full right to work at a regional airport, since people who fly there don’t only go to the city of Murcia.”
They stress that most of them are going to Cartagena, which makes the current monopoly allowed by the regional administration even more unfair.
For years, MC has been asking for the creation of two Joint Service Areas: one for La Manga, which includes Cartagena and San Javier, and another for Murcia Airport.
“But the latter is still blocked because the Autonomous Community won’t let it happen. This is a serious problem for professionals in the area and makes it hard to provide a good and balanced service to all airport users,” he says.
Giménez Gallo says that the City Council ought to protect the interests of its cab drivers and push for a fair management model that fits with the fact that this infrastructure is regional.
Author: Derek Appleton
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