A group of 88 minors from the Canary Islands at risk of being trapped and without caregivers in Barcelona

The blackout left 96 students from an institute in Telde without a return flight to Gran Canaria, children aged 15 to 16 who had to spend the night in the accesses to the Barcelona airport metro and 88 of whom are not offered return places to the island until Saturday, with the risk of being left alone, without their teachers, from Wednesday.

This is a group of fourth-year ESO students from the José Arencibia Gil institute who were returning home from their end-of-year trip, according to Raquel Almeida, secretary of the center and one of the eight teachers accompanying the group at the moment.

All of them have spent the night on the floor of zone 800 of the Barcelona airport, with access to the city's metro, because the Vueling airline flight that was supposed to transport them back to the island at 9:00 p.m. on Monday (VX300) was canceled.

"We had been at the airport since 4:00 p.m. because we wanted to be cautious about what was happening. After an initial one-hour delay, we were notified that the flight was canceled and we were made to collect our suitcases, so we loaded them with our coats and spent the night on the floor," explains Raquel Almeida.

At 6:45 a.m. this Tuesday, the airline picked up the group in two buses and placed them in a hotel in Tarragona.

The problem they are now facing is that they will not be able to return together to Gran Canaria, but on three different flights, while there is still one student to be placed on one, since so far he does not have a place to return to the island.

Almeida told EFE that Vueling has offered five students to return to the island this Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. and the eight teachers who accompany them on this trip and two other students to fly tomorrow Wednesday at 4:55 p.m.; but the remaining 88 are not given a place until May 3, Saturday, at 6:50 a.m.

The latter, if plans do not change, would mean that those 88 minors would be left without their legal guardians and without the teachers who care for them on this end-of-year trip for almost four days.

Their teachers are organizing to denounce this situation and to try to prevent it, given the ages of the children and the situation in which they find themselves.