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On The Dotted Line
urcia’s regional government will officially sign the contract tomorrow (Saturday) with operator AENA to run Corvera International Airport for 25 years. Murcia’s president, Fernando López Miras, said that the airport will be open for business later in the year, meaning that operations will be transferred from the current regional facility at San Javier. The earliest time appears to be at the start of the winter schedule towards the end of October and the beginning of November. A ceremony will take place involving López Miras and AENA president Jaime García-Legaz, with the contract signing the last piece of business between the Ministry of Development
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Javier council says they are concerned with the impact that the move will have on the local economy, especially in regard to taxi drivers who have been pushing to be allowed to operate at the new airport. French company, Edeis, who run the facility at
Castellon in the northern part of the Valencia region, decided to pull out of bidding for the Corvera contract in the autumn, meaning that AENA remained the sole applicant for the franchise, which they were duly awarded, subject to some formalities.
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rihuela and Torrevieja councils have announced that they will be pooling taxi resources over the summer months to deal with the large influx of visitors to the Orihuela Costa. The move, which has yet to be approved at a regional level, will mean taxi drivers would have the flexibility to pick up and drop off customers in either municipality at specified points. There have been major problems in big queues for taxis forming at Zenia Boulevard, even in the winter months, with the Compromis political party this week calling on Orihuela council to increase the number of taxi licences for the
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Orihuela Costa. Orihuela’s Urban Transport councillor, Begoña Cuartero, announcing the move as a pilot project, and stating that no new taxi licences would have to be issued for the scheme to work. Representatives of
taxi associations in both Orihuela and Torrevieja agreed last autumn to look at ways that their members could work together, even going as far as the possibility of a formal integration, though this fresh move falls a long way short of that.
Speaking this week, the association leaders agreed that more licences were needed for the Orihuela Costa, but in a news conference Begoña Cuartero said that the Orihuela council had to grant them, as this was a regional ministry matter.