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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Tens of thousands stranded by flight cancellations after huge Spain-Portugal power outage

Long haul: passenger walking to Lisbon airport during the power outage - (AP)

After the power outage around noon on Monday 28 April hobbled airports, airlines and air-traffic control systems in Spain and Portugal, the final flight cancellation count has just been announced by aviation analysts Cirium.

Passengers travelling to, from and within Spain encountered 413 cancellations, while the score for Portugal is 372. But because many of those are links between the two countries, and are therefore “double counted,” The Independent believes the true total is around 500 – affecting an estimated 80,000 passengers.

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