Catania airport has been reopened: a crane near the runway had caused all flights to stop
After several hours of stopping flights-both departing and arriving-around 10 a.m. this [...]
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After several hours of flight stoppages - both departing and arriving - around 10 o'clock of this morning the Catania-Fontanarossa airport was reopened: the connections Volotea V71741 and Eurowings EW9814, arriving from Verona and Dusseldorf respectively, were the first to land at CTA. What is certain is that the inconveniences for passengers will continue in the coming hours; the average delay of outbound flights alone, according to FlightRadar24, is 110 minutes.
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It promises to be a Thursday, July 3 particularly hot for Sicilians and tourists flying into Catania today. It is news in recent minutes, in fact, that the Catania-Fontanarossa Airport was closed.
As Sac - the management company of Catania and Comiso Airport - explains in a note, the interruption of all departing and arriving flights was caused "From the absence of safe conditions for air navigation due to the presence of obstacles along the landing and takeoff paths located west of the runway".
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As the image extrapolated from FlightRadar24 shows, many incoming flights were deviants on other airports and as many departing flights were deleted o postponed By several hours.
Sac - which is monitoring the development of events - has ordered the disruption of outbound and inbound connections to CTA until at least 9 a.m.; however, it is very likely that the inconvenience and disruption will continue for several hours.
According to reports from some readers of The Flight Club who are in CTA, it would be some Problems related to the railroad burying work to cause the flight stop at the Sicilian airport.
In this case, delays (and cancellations) being. not attributable to the airlines, the one in question does not fall within the situations covered by theFlight Advocate.
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