Lanzarote Airport is experiencing moderate to high delays due to the air traffic controllers' strike and the diversion of flights during the night of last Wednesday due to fog. This is reported by the official Eurocontrol website. In total, more than forty flights have been affected in the last few hours and have suffered changes in departure or landing times.
Since the update at 8:00 a.m. this Thursday, the César Manrique airport appears alongside Gran Canaria Airport and Tel Aviv Airport (Israel) as the ones registering the most delays on the morning of this Thursday.
In addition, according to what the public company that manages the Lanzarote airport, Aena, has published on its website through information from the airlines, more than twenty flights scheduled to depart between 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. from Lanzarote to other destinations have suffered delays.
This delay in departures affects flights that should have departed first thing in the morning to Madrid and Barcelona. In addition, it has continued to accumulate throughout the morning.
The air traffic controllers' strike has already accumulated 7,558 minutes of delays and is the reason for the incidents in 28% of flights.
Regarding arrivals, at least five flights that were diverted on Wednesday night due to the fog that affected the visibility of the aerodrome and that should have landed last night will land at 1:00 p.m. this Thursday.
In addition, around 21 flights that were scheduled to land on Thursday morning are also suffering a considerable delay of at least one hour each.
The air traffic controllers stopped the strike during the December long weekend and during the celebration of the Christmas holidays. From January 7, they resumed the mobilizations within the framework of their negotiation with Saerco, the company in charge of managing the control tower of Lanzarote Airport.
The objective is to achieve an improvement in working and salary conditions. However, after months of meetings, there is still no agreement.
