The 96 students and eight teachers of 4th year of ESO from Gran Canaria who have spent the night at Barcelona airport after their return flight was canceled this Monday as a result of the major blackout will all take a plane together this Wednesday to finally return to the island.
This will end the journey of these secondary school students, aged between 15 and 16, who were trapped in the Catalan aerodrome when their return flight to Gran Canaria was canceled due to the electrical incident.
Vueling, the airline they were supposed to travel with, has explained to EFE that it has redone its schedule to finally be able to place the entire group of young people and teachers on the same flight to this island.
The Ministry of Education of the Canary Islands government has assured, for its part, that they have been able to manage this flight after, initially, they did not offer this group of students and teachers a joint departure, with the risk that some students could be left alone until Saturday.
This is a group of fourth-year ESO students from the José Arencibia Gil de Telde institute who were returning home from their end-of-year trip.
They have all spent the night on the floor of zone 800 of Barcelona Airport, with access to the city's metro.
Until the departure of their plane this Wednesday, the students and their teachers will be staying in a hotel, on a full board basis, expenses that will be borne by the airline.
Vueling has assured that the students "have never been helpless" in Barcelona and has stated that they were offered to stay overnight in a hotel last night but that, having to travel to it in two different buses, they decided to stay in the airport facilities, something that their teachers in charge deny, who assure that these buses arrived this morning to take them to Tarragona.
