Aena introduces trolley charge in TFS

[Janet]

TFS is to charge €1 for the use of luggage trolleys. A date for the measure to be implemented is yet to be announced, but Tenerife's south airport will join Madrid's Barajas, where charging machines are already being installed. Aena says that it expects to save €3.2 million annually from the new trolley charge in Barajas alone, and that it will also be implementing the system in other  airports apart from Tenerife and Madrid-Barajas, namely Gran Canaria, Barcelona-El Prat, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, and Alicante. JA

[Michael]

I'm just thinking that of maybe 10 trips to Tenerife, I have never used one.

Anyway, with an allowance of only 20kg. and most suitcases having wheels anyway, does anyone still use them? 

[Perikles]

Aena says that it expects to save €3.2 million annually from the new trolley charge in Barajas alone,

That is a disingenuous way of putting it. They won't save anything, just screw more profit from customers.

[Briz]

I'm just thinking that of maybe 10 trips to Tenerife, I have never used one.

Anyway, with an allowance of only 20kg. and most suitcases having wheels anyway, does anyone still use them? 

Yes families especially those with two children

But it is only to be expected all the UK airports charge

[Delderek]

If I remember correctly they tried this a few years ago at TFS, but abandoned it shortly afterwards. Not many Brits had euro coins (although I think pound coins also worked) and it caused a lot of frustration.

[Perikles]

Weird isn't it? You see all these hugely overweight groups in the check-in queues with piles of suitcases on trolleys, having spent 7 or 14 days waddling around Los Cris or Mercadona with virtually no clothes on and disgusting body parts hanging out.  Why all the luggage?

Might not be the same people, of course, I try not to look too closely. 

[Janet]

I'm not sure if it was Aena who was behind it when it was happening at TFS before, but if so, it was anyway an isolated thing. This time, they're running it in all the main tourism airports ...