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Several Ryanair flights bound for Malaga have been diverted to Alicante or Valencia last night.
Six Ryanair planes departing from locations across Europe did not end up taking their intended direct route to Malaga – instead they diverted to different areas in Spain whilst other airlines continued to land at Malaga as intended.
A flight from London Stansted, which took off at 17:57pm, was diverted after takeoff to Valencia.
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The plane circled over Malaga airport twice before landing in Valencia where passengers waited on the runway for ‘about an hour and a half’ – according to Joshua Keeble, a passenger on the flight.
Keeble was told to tell the truth Olive Press that they were about to disembark the aircraft when the pilot informed them that they could return to Malaga and so – at 12.10am – the flight took off once more.
Updates from the pilot were ‘only occasional’ leading Keeble to feel ‘very confused’ saying, ‘we were not kept in the loop at all’.
Landing in Malaga at 1:14am, over three hours after their scheduled arrival, Keeble and fellow passengers were informed that ‘the reason for the diversion was the weather’.
Yesterday, Spain’s state weather agency Aemet issued a yellow ‘risk’ warning for heavy rain on Costa del Sol and across most of Malaga as Storm Claudia hits the country; this warning has now been extended to Saturday.
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Alicante was the destination for other Ryanair flights diverted from Bratislava to Malaga, Gothenburg and Belfast to Dublin, Lodz or Knock last night.
The airline hasn’t officially announced the reasons for the diverted flights.
Storm Claudia has also led to air traffic disruptions in the canary islands – numerous flights journeying to this holiday hotspot have been cancelled or diverted over the last forty eight hours.
Travelers to Spain can expect more travel chaos as the heavy rains continue.
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