Re-fuelling problems wreak havoc at Lisbon Airport

A problem to the fuel supply at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport has caused delays and cancellations to hundreds of flights.

in World · 11 May 2017, 14:57 · 1 Comments

The malfunction was first noticed at noon on Wednesday, and was only fully corrected during the early hours of Thursday morning.
According to airport operator ANA, a total of 64 flights were cancelled, a further 11 diverted to other airports, while 322 suffered delays.
Many were allowed to depart after midnight, overriding the limitations of a law limiting noise over the capital. It is estimated that 50,000 air passengers were affected by this unprecedented problem at Portugal’s largest airport.

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Comments

actually the real problem is that the amount of flights increased and the morons who run the airports in portugal keep only enough fuel for a few days with the real strike on the fuel refineries and specialized transports they couldnt get enough fuel on time ... ! thats why the passangers were not redirected to faro porto or beja airports because then those airports would run out their fuel also ! 12 hours waiting a train to porto is 3 and half hours a train to beja 3 hours ! a nuissance yes but far better then having people waiting for 12 freaking hours ! ofc they keep the ush ush or else they get the poltical backlash

By Ricardo Alves from Algarve on 16 May 2017, 05:38