The power failure that occurred on Sunday morning at the Canary Islands Control Center (ACC) and left the islands' airports inoperative for 20 minutes continues to cause delays of up to three hours in flights operated at the Archipelago's aerodromes, although the average delay is one hour, according to Aena sources.
Specifically, in Gran Canaria and until 7:00 p.m., there have been 33 delays in departures and 40 in arrivals; in Fuerteventura, 32 and 9 in departures and arrivals, respectively, while in Lanzarote, departure delays affect 22 flights and arrivals affect 20. In the case of the island of Lanzarote, the delays are 90 minutes for arrivals and 30 for departures.
Aena has confirmed that the situation at the Tenerife airports is similar, since on the islands of La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, operability is completely normal. The average delay in affected flights in Tenerife South and North is 60 minutes, although some flights, with arrivals at the southern airport, accumulate a delay of up to three hours.
It should be remembered that the breakdown forced the reduction of the air traffic management capacity of the Canary Islands, which has affected the operability of all airports. The limitations derived from this technical problem have caused regulations for all traffic that has as its destination or origin some Canary airport, or flies over its airspace.
This incident in the Canary ACC is also affecting the traffic of other Spanish airports that have flights this Sunday, both with the airports of the Canary Archipelago and with the South American ones. Due to its location, the Canary airspace is an obligatory passage for all traffic that circulates between Europe and South America, as well as part of the traffic that does so to the Caribbean and Central America.
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