Walter Finch
PASSENGERS managing to land at Malaga Airport are facing a mountain of hurdles in order to get on to their destination.
The latest reports indicate that, although flights are generally continuing, passengers are being delayed in disembarking after landing.
This is likely due to the extensive flooding that has filled the exterior airport grounds with knee-deep water.
To make matters worse, once passengers do manage to make it to arrivals, they find that there are no trains running.
Instead, queues for taxis are currently snaking around the airport, and wait times in Malaga are similarly long.
One malagueño wrote on social media: “If you are in Malaga and you are going to call a taxi, be aware that the call time is around half an hour and there is no guarantee of a response.
“There are long queues at the airport and as there is no transport, many people have been left stranded.”
According to airport operator Aena, by 2pm 135 commercial flights scheduled for today out of the 296 had flown scheduled.
Five flights have been diverted and just one has been cancelled.
The national rail operator Renfe suspended all short distance trains in Malaga from 1.30pm, including high speed AVE trains to and from Madrid.
Trains are not arriving at Malaga María Zambrano or leaving Madrid Puerta de Atocha Almudena Grandes, while the Malaga to Sevilla line and Malaga Cordoba train have also been cancelled for the day.
Meanwhile, airline Helity has cancelled all helicopter flights linking Ceuta with both Malaga airport and Algeciras.
