Lanzarote Airport ordered to clean up its act

Lanzarote’s Cabildo has approved a motion ordering Spain’s airport authority, AENA, to remove an advertising pole at the entrance to the airport, as well as to clean up its garden areas which are in a serious state of neglect.

Council member Jesús Machìn said “César Manrique Airport is the first visual impact received by the millions of visitors who arrive each year in Lanzarote. We cannot allow that welcome to be marred by an advertising pole that disrupts the visual harmony and aesthetic philosophy that has always inspired this island.”

The leader of Lanzarote’s Chamber of Commerce, José Valle, recently said that AENA had told him that the company in charge of garden maintenance in Canarian airports had “suffered problems and had to stop working”. He added that AENA had told him that it was working “urgently” get a new contract, “but bureaucracy is not simple.”