He Bilbao Airport It is famous for the difficulties in landing planes in strong winds, and this is what we saw this Wednesday, when the strong gusts of Hurricane Kirk prevented landing. 18 flights that had to be abandoned their landing attempts. One of them was not from Malaga, who had to land in Asturias after the failed maneuvers in old Sondika.
The AENA report from 9:15 a.m. this Wednesday reveals that a total of 42 flights had to be canceled at Bilbao airport due to the effects of Hurricane Kirk, while 18 others were diverted and did not was able to land at the Biscay airfield at fstrong gusts of wind.
Sources of Aena, you reported that at 8:05 a.m. a plane coming from Alicante he had to return to his place of originunable to land, the same thing that happened with another from Barcelona, which should have landed at La Paloma at 8:15 a.m. and was sent back to Prat.
Between 8:15 and 8:30 there were two more diversions due to the effects of Hurricane Kirk in Bilbao, one of the flight from Malaga, which landed in Asturias, and the flight from Madrid, which returned to the home airfield. . He only managed to land at Bilbao airport until 9:25 a.m.a plane coming from Vienna, reports Ep.
For its part, at Hondarribia airport (Guipuzcoa), less affected by the wind storm, two planes from Barcelona and Madrid landed normally, between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.
Strong winds continued to blow, especially in Biscay, after 4 p.m., so that until that time only 25 of the 148 flights scheduled for this Wednesday had been operated.
From six in the afternoon the orange alert due to strong winds in Biscay was deactivated and at seven fifteen in the afternoon the situation was already normal, with the departure and arrival of flights at Loiu airport.
