The hospitality employers and trade unions have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in which they warn of the risk of bankruptcy of the businesses in the airports managed by Aena, and the loss of the 12,000 associated jobs, due to the rental conditions that the airport manager imposes on these businesses.
HostelerÃa de Espaà ± a, Marcas de Restauración (representing the main restaurant chains in airports) and the unions CCOO and UGT express in the aforementioned letter their concern “for the extremely serious situation “suffered by these companies and workers.
Many of the commercial premises in the airports have been closed since March and for the majority of those that are open, billing has plummeted, as a result of restrictions and the drop in the arrival of travelers, which is higher than 70%.
Gestion particular
The commercial premises of the airports have a management and conditions very different from those of a shopping center or a store at street level, since the sales are higher than those of a normal business, and therefore the rents are also much higher.
These businesses pay Aena a guaranteed minimum income, which has a variable part (a percentage of sales is paid each month) and a fixed part, which is usually calculated based on passenger traffic and is settled at the end of year, now in February.
Aena and the locals have been negotiating this part for months. Aena sent a letter to the tenants last January 18 in which it set out its plan, which proposes a 50% reduction in this guaranteed minimum rent paid by its tenants. It is covered by the decree to support hospitality and commerce approved last December, which contemplated this reduction for tenants of premises whose landlord had more than 10 properties.
The problem is that most of the businesses in the commercial areas of the airports have rejected these conditions, because they assure that they are abusive and that it is unsustainable to execute those payments, since their invoicing, without tourism and without passengers, has plummeted by 80%.
Viability
“There is a real risk to the viability of most of these companies in the very short term and, consequently, the continuity of more than 12,000 jobs is at risk. Currently, due to the pandemic, 75% of these jobs They are in an ERTE situation due to the 72% reduction in passenger traffic in 2020 “, say hoteliers and unions in their letter.
Aena, in its conditions, exempts its tenants from paying the rent from mid-March to mid-June (when the airports were closed) and from now until September they would also have that 50% reduction, as traffic is expected to he will not recover minimally until the end of the year.
Businesses that are located in terminals that are closed (as in the case of T2 and T3 in Barajas) are exempt from payment. In the state-owned company they argue that the intention is to adjust the contracts to the situation of the parties, both affected by the pandemic, in a balanced way
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