The Vueling strike will further complicate flight operations this Friday
The Barcelona-El Prat airport will suffer delays throughout the day this Friday, both in the flights departures and landings, after Catalonia had to close the airspace for 40 minutes due to the re-entry into the atmosphere of a Chinese rocket out of control.
Air traffic has been restored after 10:00 a.m., but airport sources have indicated that this interruption will have repercussions on air operations throughout the day, although they have pointed out that it is still early to predict how the situation will evolve.
The suspension of air operations has also affected other airports of Catalonia like that of Reusas well as that of Ibizain the Balearic Islands, Aragon and Navarraaccording to the same sources.
Eurocontrol reports the uncontrolled re-entry of a Chinese rocket into the atmosphere. Rate Zero has been established for certain areas of Spanish airspace and this may affect air traffic in the form of delays on the ground and route deviations in flight. pic.twitter.com/kfFBYG9s8z
— ? Air Controllers ?? (@controladores) November 4, 2022
During the journey that the artifact can make, in certain areas the zero rate, which is the name given by the European air safety office to the situation in which no plane can leave the airport of origin to the affected destinations, leaving areas inoperative, which will ultimately cause changes in the routes of some flights and delays. This could cause some chaos in some airports in our country.
Exactly, the controller points, in addition to Barcelona, to Madrid, the Canary Islands, Santa María and Lisbon (Portugal), before heading towards Marseille (France).
In a tweet, Air Controllers points out that “the forecast is that the area will be deactivated in a few minutes and traffic will begin to take off from the airports with affected routes”, but “it will take time to recover total traffic normality in terms of delays. For safety, it must be done progressively.
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This incident also coincides with the second day of the cabin crew strike. The strike has forced this Friday to cancel 29 flights. The company has preventively suspended 62 operations with origin or destination Spain.
The strike, called by the majority union Stalva, began on November 1 and will last every Friday, Sunday and Monday until January 31. It also includes some holidays such as December 6, 8, 24 and 31, as well as January 5.