Catania’s Vincenzo Bellini airport is trying to get back to normal after the fire that broke out in Terminal A in the late evening between last Sunday and Monday, causing inconvenience and fear, but the departures-arrivals picture is still messy and is rescheduled on other Sicilian airports, such as those of Palermo and Comiso.
There are 36 incoming and outgoing flights that have been diverted from the Catania airport to that of Palermo with many tourists in transit who are still awaiting news from the respective airlines.
«I have now received the communication that they will move the flight by a few hours – says a passenger who is waiting to return to Milan -. We look at the cell phone waiting for the email from the airline to find out when we will be back home. A nightmare”.
Many flights have also been rescheduled to Comiso: here is the list
Meanwhile the situation at the Vincenzo Florio terminal in Trapani Birgi, after yesterday’s first strong wave, has returned to normal, despite the considerable increase in transit flights again due to the fire that hit Catania airport.
The flights rescheduled by Fontanarossa, from this morning were Cagliari (2 flights), Venice (3 flights), Bologna (4 flights), Naples, Fiumicino (6 flights), Athens, Bergamo (3 flights), Otopeni, Malpensa (3 flights ), Katowice, Perugia, Frankfurt, Brindisi, Malta (2 flights), Warsaw, Turin, Madrid, Pisa, Genoa. Two charters to and from Tenerife and Lisbon are added. For a total of 106 flights with the normal Vincenzo Florio schedule. The day of 17 July recorded 71 movements, divided into 36 arrivals of which 19 from Catania and 35 departures of which 17 from Catania. Almost double the normal scheduled flights for a total of 9,054.
«Although the activity of the airport has been subjected to extreme stress – commented the president of Airgest, Salvatore Ombra – the staff is working to one hundred percent of their abilities, in all the roles necessary to deal with the emergency that has hit the Catania airport to which we have expressed our active closeness from the first moment. The main difficulty we encountered was finding buses, over 110 are needed today, to transport passengers to their final destination, Catania”.
