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Travel Agencies in the Balearic Islands have received with surprise the agreement reached between the Department of Health and the airline Air Nostrum, which operates between Balearic islands, for it to forward tickets to patients who have to travel to Menorca or Ibiza to Mallorca, and from Palma to the Peninsula, a medical emergency.
Speaking to Europa Press, the president of the Association of Travel Agencies Baleares (Avibase), Sylvia Riera, stressed that the agencies are the main customer of the airlines, so the industry does not understand why has not Air Nostrum made this deal with them, being the agencies that supply the customers to the airlines. “We are who fill the planes of Air Nostrum, so we do not understand this way to steal customers.
Riera has remarked that in this conflict, generated by the debt default by the Govern travel agencies, “the first are the patients,” and any measures to ensure the transfer is positive. However, agencies usually provide this service and advance tickets to patients so they can Travel.
Therefore, if the airline had made ??this deal with the agencies would have benefited and The transfer would also be guaranteed,” she added.