Spanish airports preparing to face a historic snowfall.
Spanish airports are preparing to face a historical snowfall that could condition the already scarce national air traffic during the next days. All the contingency plans are activated and ready to be put into action when necessary, and many national airports are already beginning to feel the passage of the storm ‘Filomena’ with cancellations or diversions in their flights.
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The air traffic was maintained at noon this Friday with normality throughout the country, according to sources of Aena informed Europa Press, with a forecast of very intense wind in the Canary Islands that will remain in the following hours. Aena has informed that in the airport of Tenerife North a flight has had to be diverted to Tenerife South.
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The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, the one with the most traffic in the network, could be one of the main affected ones this weekend with the generalized snowfalls and the low temperatures that are expected in the Community of Madrid.
The air navigation manager has reported on his Twitter account that he has carried out preventive work on the four runways at Madrid’s airport, where he has activated the Winter Plan to prevent the accumulation of snow in the area where aircraft are moving.
The ‘Winter Action Plan for ice and snow contingencies’ establishes the procedures to be followed by airports in the event of this type of contingency, so that the ice and snow do not affect scheduled operations or minimize the influence they may have on air traffic at the airport.
This has been stated in an interview in ‘Onda Cero’, collected by Europa Press, the Secretary General of Transport and Mobility of the Government of Spain, María José Rallo, who has stressed that “because of its importance” Barajas “has a special protocol”.
Rallo explained that the impact of the storm on Thursday was different depending on the different areas of Spain affected, but highlighted the impact on air transport in the Canary Islands and Malaga airport. On Thursday, more than thirty flights were cancelled in the Canary Islands and almost another ten were diverted.
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