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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Air transport Power failure chaos The strategic role of Gran Canaria airport’s control centre was in evidence for all the wrong reasons earlier this month when a power failure brought further chaos to flights to and from the Canaries.  All landings and departures from the islands were suspended for over half an hour and flights bound for the Canaries from elsewhere, including Germany and the UK, were put into a holding pattern while the problem was resolved. The incident, which affected 350 flights in all in one of the busiest weeks of the year, led to a backlog of delays that was not resolved fully for almost two days. The Canarian Department of Tourism said the combination of the Gran Canaria control centre power failure and the air traffic controllers’ work to rule had given the Canaries, “a third world image to the holiday world,” and called for assurances that the problems would not be repeated. This article appears in the print edition 608 of Island Connections
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