British airlines Jet2 and Monarch have both said that they will be reducing the number of their flights to Tenerife if the State finally decides not to continue the discount in the airport taxes who fly to the Canaries, and who have met a series of conditions, such as opening new routes and increasing passenger numbers. Also German airline Condor has put plans for a new route from Germany the Tenerife North Airport on hold for the same reason. Carlos Alonso, the tourism councillor for the Canaries, noted that this showed that there was a direct relationship between discounts and air connections. He’s made a call to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, ‘to not play with our bread and butter’. ‘Everyone wins if we keep these grants’, said Alonso. The grants concerned total about 26 million €. Monarch carried 335,844 British tourists to Tenerife last year, 10.6% more than in 2010, and Jet2 carried 132,994 British tourists in 2011, up 37%.
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