Aena

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Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea

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legal form Sociedad Anónima Public Company
ISIN ES0105046009
founding June 19, 1991
Seat Madrid Spain
SpainSpain 
management José Manuel Vargas (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Number of employees 7320 (2013)
sales € 2.9 billion (2013)
Branch traffic
Website www.aena.es

The Aena SA ( A eropuertos E spañoles y N avegación A Erea ) is a Spanish corporation , which is majority owned by the state and is responsible for the operation of domestic airports. Aena also has interests in airports in Mexico, USA, Cuba, Colombia, Bolivia, Sweden and Great Britain. Aena is the world's largest airport operator based on the number of passengers it handles.

privatization

At the beginning of December 2010, the then Spanish government announced a possible partial privatization of the Aena. This should be done in several steps: In a first step, air traffic control at 13 Spanish airports was assigned to two private operators in September 2011; in a second step, 20-year concessions for the operation of the airports Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona-El Prat should be tendered to private operators and their capital should be opened up to 90.05%; then 49% of the subsidiary Aena Aeropuertos, which should operate the remaining airports, should be placed with private investors. After the change of government in Spain at the end of 2011, the new conservative government put the entire privatization concept on hold in January 2012.

At the end of 2012, plans for the privatization of Aena were announced again; these plans were initially postponed to spring 2014 at the end of summer 2013. In June 2014 it was announced that only 49% would be listed on the stock exchange. In February 2015, 44.6% of Aena was successfully floated on the Madrid Stock Exchange. In follow-up sales, the share was increased to 49%, the total income amounted to € 4.3 billion. This was the largest IPO in Europe for years . About two months later, the Spanish competition authority Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia demanded a new distribution of airport operating costs in favor of the airlines and at the expense of the airport operator. According to investors, this regulation violates the rules for the IPO, which guaranteed a constant cost distribution until 2025. The TCI fund, which is involved in Aena, calculated the damage to Aena as a result of the new regulation at around € 1 billion. Until September 2015, TCI had not yet issued a declaration according to which it would assert rights from an investment protection agreement .

Air traffic control

Aena was responsible for all flight procedures: Area Control Center , local traffic control , air traffic control and approach and departure control as well as air traffic control at the national level. These responsibilities have remained with the state holding company, which has been called Enaire since July 5, 2014 .

In September 2011, air traffic control at 13 airports was outsourced to two private operators in order to reduce operating costs. The airports of Alicante, Valencia, Ibiza, Sabadell, Sevilla, Jerez, Vigo, A Coruña, Melilla, as well as Cuatro Vientos near Madrid will from now on be secured by a consortium led by the construction company Ferrovial , while the private service provider Saerco will secure the Canarian airports in Lanzarote Fuerteventura and La Palma secure. The government has not yet made a decision on the privatization of air traffic control at other airports.

Airports

former logo Aena Aeropuertos

Aena airports had been owned by a 100% subsidiary, Aena Aeropuertos, since the beginning of 2011, which was founded as a public limited company with a view to possible privatization.

Airports in Spain

Of the total of 46 Spanish airports operated by Aena Aeropuertos, four are in the Balearic Islands , eight in the Canary Islands and the largest Spanish airport, Madrid-Barajas , which is also the fourth largest airport in Europe and in tenth place worldwide (see: List of largest commercial airports ). The Helipuerto de Algeciras and the Helipuerto de Ceuta in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa are also administered by Aena.

International airports

In addition, Aena Aeropuertos Internacional SA operates 27 airports in 8 countries.

Mexico

Aena has a 33.33% stake in Aeropuertos Mexicanos del Pacifico (AMP). With 15%, it is the main shareholder in the listed Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico, which operates 12 privatized airports in western Mexico, including

  • Guadalajara Airport (7.0 million passengers (2010))
  • Tijuana Airport (3.6 million)
  • Los Cabos (2.7 million)
  • Puerto Vallarta (2.7 million)
  • Hermosillo (1.1 million)
  • Guanajuato (0.9 million)
  • as well as the smaller airports in Aguascalientes, La Paz, Los Mochis, Morelia, Manzanillo and Mexicali.

The 12 airports in Mexico had a volume of 20.2 million passengers in 2010.

Colombia

Aena is involved in 3 airports in Colombia:

  • Barranquilla Airport (1.0 million passengers): 40% in Aeropuertos del Caribe SA
  • Cartagena Airport (4.4 million passengers): 37.89% owned by Sociedad Aeroportuaria de la Costa
  • Cali Airport: 33.34% in Aerocali

The 3 airports in Colombia had a total of 5.0 million passengers.

Cuba

Aena has a stake in Aeropuerto Internacional Jardines del Rey, which operates Cayo Coco Airport with 371,000 passengers.

TBI

In addition, Aena has a 10 percent stake in the British airport operator TBI. TBI was founded in 1972, renamed TBI in 1994 and taken over by Abertis Infraestructuras (90%) and Aena Desarrollo Internacional (10%) in 2004 . TBI operates airports in the UK, Sweden, USA, Costa Rica and Bolivia.

Web links

Commons : Aena  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aena.es: Historia de Aena (Spanish)
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 2013 (PDF; 4.99 MB) Aena, accessed on February 15, 2015 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Homepage Aena. Aena, accessed September 4, 2014 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ a b Nace la nueva Aena y empieza la privatización de aeropuertos. In: El País . February 26, 2011, Retrieved July 10, 2011 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Press release and presentation on privatization of July 15, 2011. Aena, accessed on July 19, 2011 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ a b Article in El País of January 24, 2012: Fomento anula el modelo de privatización de Barajas y El Prat. El País, accessed January 26, 2012 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Tobias Buck: Spain to sell 49% of airports group Aena. June 13, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Reuters: Aena from Spain: Airport operator shines on the stock exchange. In: handelsblatt.com. Handelsblatt , February 15, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2015 .
  9. ↑ New Zürche newspaper: The state as uncertain journeyman , September 17, 2015
  10. ↑ ENAIRE - Acerca de ENAIRE. Retrieved February 15, 2015 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Article in El País of September 28, 2011: Aena adjudica a Ferrovial y Saerco las torres de control de 13 aeropuertos. Retrieved December 26, 2011 (Spanish).
  12. ↑ SACSA | Sociedad Aeroportuaria de la Costa SA |. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .