Antisocial behaviour Airport peace deal

TAXI and minibus drivers in Palma have arrived at an agreement to stop their on‐going dispute at the air ‐port.

Association representa‐tives for both parties in Mallorca met last Friday, May 5 to discuss ways of solving the confrontation and agreed to try out a new passenger collection system that satisfies them both.

Taxi association presi ‐dent Biel Moragues re ‐vealed after the meeting that under the new agree‐ment minibus drivers are not allowed to pick up groups of less than five pas‐ sengers and must focus on groups of five to 19 people. Moragues added that this initial deal will not solve the problem of the ‘pirate’ transport activity at the airport “but is a big step towards ending it.”

Minibus and taxi drivers had staged several con ‐frontations at Son Sant Joan over previous weeks, with travellers landing at the airport being greeted by crowds of arguing drivers fighting for cus ‐tomers in what Sr Mor ‐agues described as “a third‐world image” of Palma that was bad for business for everyone.

THE Balearic Islands Gov ‐ernment has announced a clampdown on antisocial behaviour this summer.

This will be done by ap‐plying the regulation against ‘tourism of excess’ enforced by the regional executive, and was an ‐nounced during last week’s meeting of the Commission for the Pro ‐motion of Civility presided by Economic Model and Tourism councillor Iago Negueruela.

“The regulation is very effective and provides in ‐struments that have a great impact, such as pre‐cautionary closures of es ‐