Commuters accuse train driver of intending to halt service after delay arguing end of shift
Passengers 'rebel' to force him reach destination, over three hours later than scheduled
delays
Passengers at Barcelona airport up in August despite month of strikes and delays
The cumulative tally for 2019 is 5.2% up from last year, reaching 35.5 million travellers
Barcelona El Prat among top 4 airports globally with most delays this summer
35% to 40% of flights took off at least 15 minutes late, with average delays set at 45 minutes
Delays of over an hour due to breakdown at Sants train station
Seven commuter train lines are affected by the incident
Barcelona El Prat airport blocks all flights due to intense rain
Airport resumes activity with delays and restrictions
Almost half of flights in Barcelona airport delayed this summer
Passengers waited average of 55 minutes when traveling to or from Catalan capital by plane
Vueling President admits "having failed" to solve the company chaos of the last weeks
“We have been really focused on trying to solve it but I must admit we have failed”, stated Vueling President, Javier Sánchez-Prieto, in an interview published this Wednesday by Catalan newspaper ‘Ara’. Sánchez-Prieto conceded that mistakes were made by the Catalan low-cost airline’s management during the last weeks’ aerial chaos at Barcelona El Prat airport: Vueling cancelled more than 60 flights in the past four days and most of those flights which did operate suffered from delays, affecting nearly 78,000 passengers. A situation which was made worse by the repeated strikes of French air traffic controllers, the last of which started last Monday. “Honestly and being self-critical we should have appeared ahead of time and communicated better”, he stated.
Short-distance train network collapses again and may affect 60,000 passengers throughout the day
Today’s chaos in Catalonia’s railway system, operated by Spanish public train operator Renfe, is to be added to a long list of problems which have occurred on this network during the last decade. On this occasion, 60 short-distance trains and 25,000 passengers were affected by an attempted copper theft in three different train stations in the Barcelona area. This criminal act caused several small fires in the railway installations of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, La Llagosta and Mollet del Vallès, around 20 kilometres away from Barcelona, which led to 30-minute minimum delays on four different lines. Alternative routes and extra buses have been added to guarantee the mobility of these citizens and according to the Spanish public company in charge of building and maintaining the railway infrastructure, Adif, the consequences will still affect nearly 60,000 people and 200 trains throughout the day.