Flights at Catania airport will remain suspended until 4 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, August 13, due to the eruptive activity of Etna. This was announced by Sac, the company that manages the Vincenzo Bellini airport, announcing the extension of the closure of sector B3 of the airspace and, consequently, the stop of both arrivals and departures.
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The new suspension extends an emergency that has been putting pressure on Sicilian air traffic for days, right in the middle of the summer exodus. From August 8 to 11, about 700 connections were canceled in Catania due to canceled flights, missed arrivals, and departures. Departing cancellations were about 400, to which another 52 scheduled for today are added, according to information published on the airport’s website.
A significant part of the traffic has been transferred to other airports on the island. Since the beginning of the emergency, more than 250 flights have been rescheduled to airports other than Catania. More than one hundred have been diverted to Comiso, while just yesterday about fifty connections were transferred to Palermo and another 22 to Trapani.
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Today too, the Sicilian airport system is absorbing part of the flights originally scheduled at Fontanarossa. According to data published by Sac, 50 departures scheduled from Catania have been moved: 33 will take off from Palermo, 14 from Trapani, and three from Comiso. Regarding arrivals, 40 flights have been diverted to Palermo, 12 to Trapani, and five to Comiso.
The changes particularly affect the airlines operating the largest number of connections at the Catania airport, including Ryanair, easyJet, Ita Airways, and Wizz Air.
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