Forty euros by day, 45 at night and on public holidays. That is the maximum fare the Canarian government proposed on 21 August for a taxi ride between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the airport. Two months on, the figure is still a proposal, inside a regulation that has not been finalised.
On Tuesday 20 October the Federación Regional del Taxi, chaired by Juan Martínez López, held an extraordinary assembly. Its president reported on the “impressions and agreements” from talks with María Fernández, director general of Transport and Mobility, and members decided to keep negotiating. Two meetings took place at the end of the previous week, one with each trade body: the federation and the Confederación del Taxi en Canarias. A note on RTVC’s headline, which speaks of an agreement: the text makes clear there is no definitive deal and that talks remain “open and active”.
The draft is published and objections can be submitted until the end of October. Manuel de Jesús Melián Campos, president of the Confederación, proposed adding the T3 intercity tariff, which covers trips leaving the municipality that issued the licence for a destination outside its urban area. The parties also discussed regulation of VTC (ride-hailing cars with drivers) and the flat fare between Las Palmas and the airport. Darío Medina, the Confederación’s secretary, says the most open issue is a flat fare involving Telde taxis. A new version of the text is expected in early January 2027.
To see why Telde is at the centre, a detail from August helps. Gorky Bethencourt, spokesman for the Asprotac association, asked why the cap covered only that route, and recalled that Las Palmas taxi drivers cannot pick up passengers at the airport, a service reserved for taxis from Telde and Ingenio. That means the driver you meet on arrival is often not from the city you are heading to. A flat fare would change the arithmetic for both groups.
What does it mean for a resident or someone landing on a flight? For now, almost nothing: the text is a draft and we found no entry-into-force dates or approved fares. What you can do is follow the next few weeks, because three concrete things are at stake: whether the airport flat fare is adopted and at what price, whether intercity trips get their own tariff, and how VTC will be regulated, since many people in Gran Canaria and Tenerife use them as an alternative.
For anyone who wants to weigh in, the objection period stays open until the end of this month. We have not verified the exact channel for submitting them, so it is worth looking on the Canarian government’s website or in the Boletín Oficial de Canarias. The calendar says this will not be settled before the new year, with every caveat attached: if the parties do not converge, even the January version need not be the final one.
