Residents discounts (new rules from 1st November)

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 From 1st November it is no longer necessary for adults to carry a "Travel certificate " to prove eligibility for 50% residents discount once they are properly registered with their Ayuntamiento. Airlines and Ferry companies will be able to check their data bases to see if passengers are properly registered. Children under 14 must still carry documentation.

It may be no harm to still carry one though......just in case.....you know what they are like.  laprovincia.es http://www.laprovincia.es/economia/2014/10/29/fomento-acaba-partir-sabado-obligacion/642872.html




Article translated online by Google (terrible translation.....sorry )


Works just beginning Saturday with the obligation to travel certificate
Airlines have to verify from November 1 if the passenger is a resident - Children under 14 without ID must still file the document


Two years and two months. That was the time spent in the obligation imposed by the Ministry of Development canaries residents to present a certificate of registration to qualify for the subsidy of 50% of the ticket price for travel between islands and the mainland. Beginning Saturday, the airline and shipping companies need to verify during the ticket purchase process if the passenger is a resident or not by querying the SARA (System Accreditation Auto Residence), which contains in its data base the pattern of the whole archipelago. In the event that the tickets have been purchased before that date, travelers should carry a certificate of residence if during the purchase did not allow companies will verify your registration.

Airlines operating in the archipelago with -Iberia, Air Europa, Ryanair, Spanair, Fly- Canary Binter and domestic destinations already adapted to this new program that allows travelers to confirm where they live. For months, these companies ask customers if they consent to the verification of your personal data for the approval of their home. However, starting from November 1, Development requires airlines to check with database whether or not the passenger is entitled to the discount.

Exceptions

This new procedure still has some exclusions to check the registration. One such exclusion occurs when the traveler is under 14 and has no identity card. It also happens if you have changed your municipality of residence a few days before buying the ticket, which can cause the SARA has not yet been updated and does not endorse this change. In this case, Development ensures that the system takes a few days to pick up the change of address. The third possibility is that there is an error between the ID number and the name of the person in the database. In all these incidents that can not confirm the residence, those affected must present the certificate of registration at the airport or port.

From the Ministry of Development is even the possibility that the program suffered a technical failure during the purchase of tickets is contemplated. If this happens, SARA checks its cache if the traveler has obtained a positive validation for the previous six months. If so, you can receive aid, as reported yesterday in a statement.

against fraud

With this system, the particular ordeal supposed to islanders carry the certificate of residence for the discount ends. This requirement was imposed by the Development September 1, 2012 to prevent fraud with the budget for the bonus tickets. This meant that citizens had to stand in long queues in the councils of the archipelago to gain official document permitting the grant. At the time, the consistory began searching from the beginning solutions to streamline the process, so many of them have been implemented over the past two years a telematic procedure with which to obtain the certificate through Internet.

Confusion

Since last January, the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor said that canaries were no longer required to submit documentation attesting to his home in the Islands to qualify for the grant. "Nobody has to teach and the role of the residence certificate to fly," then said the head of the ministerial portfolio. These statements caused confusion among the islands' society because the passengers still had to submit if not given permission for their data consult the SARA, which was then not yet implemented on all airlines and shipping companies was not mandat

Tickets ancient

Although currently these companies have already adapted to the new measure, passengers who purchased their tickets before November 1 without being accredited as residents by the system of the Ministry of Public Works shall submit the certificate in airports and ports to qualify for the 50% discount.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Def still take one with you - I bought a ticket on 4th Nov for travel the same day and I had to show my Empadron as the company's booking office computer system was down.

[Spike On Q]

The computer says NO! Take your original Travel doc. Plus Residencia, dog license, etc. Just in case!

[Spike On Q]

Passport, driving license, Tesco Clubcard, EHIC card, pack of cards, all in trplicate