At least 6,000 passengers who They had to travel yesterday to the United Kingdom from Tenerife They have not been able to do so due to a general failure of the British air navigation system, as reported by the BBC and confirmed to this period by both tour operators and the company itself. Aena.
A total of 38 flights were canceled in South Tenerife with origin or destination to the Island since early in the morning. Although the service was restored from the United Kingdom around 3:00 p.m., at that point there were thousands of people who had to be relocated to other flights, which led to chaos that was replicated throughout the world.
One of the main tour operators in the British market, Jet2, confirmed that, in his case, 16 flights were affected in Tenerife South with some three or four thousand passengers, although they have managed to relocate them and believe that throughout today they will be able to depart to his clients.
Others will have to wait for their companies to find alternatives for them on other flights, and some tourists were even looking for a needle in a haystack yesterday in the South: an apartment to stay in until their flight leaves. It will, but next Friday.
The Red Cross, for its part, set up a field hospital last night at the Tenerife Sur airport with a capacity for 50 people, with the aim of caring for those who were going to be stranded with several hours to go.
Aena also provided blankets and water to those who were at its facilities.
