Belonging The saturation of the railwayinto the air. This is what we saw on this environment, July 2, in T4 Airport Adolfo Suárez-Madrid-Barajaswhere thousands of people had to endure important lines, forming large clusters of passengers awaiting Passport control Before gaining access to your flights to such an extent that 500 people lost their flight. Overflow occurred at the point when passengers get access to The train that connects to the satellite terminal From T4 and once, having passed the accounts.
However, according to the explanation of the Aena public company, this The overflow was punctual And he denies that there was a collapse, despite the fact that the images that made us testify, that the situation shows chaos only comparable to some strikes.
At first, Aena explained that they are dates A lot of passenger influxAnd that they worked on improving the flow, Although they explained that the delay came from the absence of staff: Around 11: 00h, “strong” time to start international long flights, Half of the control kiosks was emptyWhat happened on average for 60 minutes to pass control, and this Half a thousand lost her flightThe field as an addition, the problem of the technical nature on the part of the national police, responsible for control, was on the origin of the issue. The situation began to refer at about 14:00.
The company wants to indicate that this accumulation occurred only in the control of the passport, so only Additional flights (Outside the EU). Therefore, the rest of the management elements were not affected. Finally, Avana, says he cooperates Actively with the National PoliceTo avoid future agglomerations. A little acquaintance with responsibility for these facts, Avana confirmed that his cooperation was “generalized in the control of the passage areas so that the stairs or corridors would not collapse.”
Meanwhile, the explanation of the national police was that this delay occurred “Access of flight” For very little time and on Educational computer science of punctual computer scienceField
This explanation applies to what people represent, suspected from the first moment that They saw very few control kiosks In operation.
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior confirm the Extra that the situation has occurred A specific problem in the access system used by the National PoliceThey are a field of agents access keys to their systems, which quickly failed. Nevertheless, the same sources confirm that the situation is already resolved and that they have only evidence of the existence of this problem in the terminal of the 4th airfield of Madrid.
Aena does not confirm the injured passengers if they emphasize that we are in the days of very important displacements, in a full summer campaign, and there are many flights that went out in those hours when the technical problem continued.
This event occurred just one day after the railway chaos, which was held on Tuesday More than 300 passengers and 18 injured trains From the absence of tension in the contact part between Yeles (Toledo) and Sagre (in the south -west of the Madrid community).
It also happened during Absolute growth of tourism in SpainThe arrival of foreign tourists surpassed a new record in May, although it had lower growth than in the previous months, 1.5%.
The number of passengers in Barahas is growing
As for Baraja, the latest data also dates back to the May month: the main airport of Spain In the fifth month of the year there were 5,734,394 passengers1% more than in the previous year. In total, 26 851 060 passengers They went through this airport in the first five months of the year, 3.5% more than for the same period From the previous year. We will have to wait July data To see whether this strong growth of passengers is true for the summer holidays that Avan accused, and this is then saturated with other reasons.
A year ago, in July 2024, Audolfo Airport Suarez Madrid-Barajas registered 6,132,937 passengers, Marking an increase in 10.6% According to Anana, compared with the same month of 2023 and to achieve the best figure since July 2019. If this tendency to growth continues, it is clear that Aena will need to increase control And the staff, in order to pay the necessary attention to the increase in travelers. Only on Tuesday Aena announced that until 2026 at the Spanish airports at Spanish airports, she announced that she would make additional investments of 351 million euros, although Barajas was not included in this operation.
