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Canary Islands engulfed by 'apocalyptic' sandstorm seen from SPACE on Nasa satellite
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"Airport closed. Flights diverted or turned back. Some had to do u turns. More landed malaga and faro. Predicted to last days. Thoughts with those affected."
Yeah got to feel sorry for them that left gatwick around 2pm and landed back at gatwick around 8pm .
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We stopped going in February, due to unpredictable weather. 2 years ago we were in hoodies and long trousers during the day. We moved ours to April since then... |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"We stopped going in February, due to unpredictable weather. 2 years ago we were in hoodies and long trousers during the day. We moved ours to April since then..."
Us too, very unpredictable.. |
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"Live webcam
https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/spain/gran-canaria/_aspalomas-dunas.html
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Thanks for the link ....wow looks awful there .....interesting to see the live cams ..lol big brother is watching lol |
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Here in Tenerife really bad also, carnaval cancelled in Santa Cruz since last night till further notice, both airports closed since last night and now reading that big shopping malls also closed for safety reasons. Last night driving back from the club was really scary with this hard wind. They say it stays till Monday/Tuesday.  never have witnessed this in the 21 years we live in Tenerife. Hope everyone is save..... |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Flight has been cancelled from Stansted. Was supposed to go at 10.30am but They had a ATC delay till 2pm. Just been told flight is cancelled till tomorrow now. "
Oh dear....hope it gets off tomorrow. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Most of the passengers were ok about it, I had one women say "it's just a bit hazy!"
You fly the plane then!!! Lol"
Haha  It is something that just can't be helped, as long as everyone is safe  |
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Will own up I work for jet2 lol. They are possibly shutting down tenerife as well now. Think the have 6 planes still in malaga waiting to get into GC! Air traffic control has put massive restrictions in that area and also it would be dangerous to the planes to fly through it  |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Will own up I work for jet2 lol. They are possibly shutting down tenerife as well now. Think the have 6 planes still in malaga waiting to get into GC! Air traffic control has put massive restrictions in that area and also it would be dangerous to the planes to fly through it "
Ah ok of course it would be dangerous. Are you due to go soon yourself? |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Will own up I work for jet2 lol. They are possibly shutting down tenerife as well now. Think the have 6 planes still in malaga waiting to get into GC! Air traffic control has put massive restrictions in that area and also it would be dangerous to the planes to fly through it
Ah ok of course it would be dangerous. Are you due to go soon yourself?"
Or just working? |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"the airport gran Canaria is closed for another 24 hours, good luck "
Oh dear...Yes good luck. There will be some happy children not going back to school tomorrow Thanks for the update |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Gutted , I should have out there this week but had to book the week before , have seen a sand storm there before was brilliant. "
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They are something to see, but not so good if your flights have been cancelled |
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"It's not as bad as you'd think we are sitting out in a beer garden watching the rugby
the airport is closed so probably worse in Las Palmas"
I'd say it's more to do with sand in the air and jet engines being very expensive to fix |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"It's not as bad as you'd think we are sitting out in a beer garden watching the rugby
the airport is closed so probably worse in Las Palmas
I'd say it's more to do with sand in the air and jet engines being very expensive to fix "
Yes of course bit like when that volcano erupted ( can't remember where) and the volcanic ash. |
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"I arrived yesterday evening. Ventured out earlier but now stuck in hotel. So gutted that the pool is closed. "
I spoke to a colleague earlier who used to work out there and they said once it clears up the weather is amazing. Hope you enjoy the rest of ya holiday x |
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By *minxyCouple
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL |
"Jet2 Flight cancelled from leeds so we are spending the night in a hotel in leeds centre.
Will try again tommorow at 10am fingers crossed.
Xx"
Very bad luck; hopefully tomorrow. We are due to fly tomorrow morning from Exeter.......it seems difficult to find much information. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Jet2 Flight cancelled from leeds so we are spending the night in a hotel in leeds centre.
Will try again tommorow at 10am fingers crossed.
Xx"
Good luck and fingers crossed for you. A poster on this thread, said earlier, that airport was closing for 24 hours. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Jet2 Flight cancelled from leeds so we are spending the night in a hotel in leeds centre.
Will try again tommorow at 10am fingers crossed.
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Very bad luck; hopefully tomorrow. We are due to fly tomorrow morning from Exeter.......it seems difficult to find much information. "
Good luck. I suppose it's difficult to say, the weather can change so quickly. |
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Indeed it is. Had a wander round the block from our temporary hotel. Still very windy especially in exposed areas and the air is so loaded with sand it’s making you blink continuously if walking into the wind. Also the air is very hot and of course you cant see more than about 400metres! |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Indeed it is. Had a wander round the block from our temporary hotel. Still very windy especially in exposed areas and the air is so loaded with sand it’s making you blink continuously if walking into the wind. Also the air is very hot and of course you cant see more than about 400metres!"
Oh dear, are you due to fly home? |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"We are sheduled for tomorrow 24th feb 13.00 utc Amsterdam - Las Palmas , fingers crossed
Yes good luck
Thanks , we need a better visibility which is 0,5 miles at this very moment
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Oh dear, hope it improves for you |
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"Yeah yesterday, then today and now tomorrow, perhaps! I’m not that bothered really but rest of family are not so happy about it!
Hopefully you've had a good holiday "
Yes we did thanks, enjoy your next one too |
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"For people who are interested in flights inbound/outbound Gran Canaria , check flightradar24.com"
Total contrast to normal. Distinct lack of anything in skies that are usually full of planes at this hour. Only ones in the area are high up above the sand and going elsewhere! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It appears the worst should be over by Monday night. There are so many cancelled flights for Saturday,
Sunday and potentially Monday that delays rebooking inevitable. We are with easyJet and they have up giving accommodation so we rented another apartment in Maspalomas for another week and will get plane back next saturday. Not ideal with family and work commitments but it’s an island with limited flight routes. We could get home Thursday with three flights over 21 hours for £800 each but don’t see the point to get home a day earlier in effect.
Looking forward to some more sun Monday onwards |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Yeah yesterday, then today and now tomorrow, perhaps! I’m not that bothered really but rest of family are not so happy about it!
Hopefully you've had a good holiday
Yes we did thanks, enjoy your next one too "
Thank you |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"It appears the worst should be over by Monday night. There are so many cancelled flights for Saturday,
Sunday and potentially Monday that delays rebooking inevitable. We are with easyJet and they have up giving accommodation so we rented another apartment in Maspalomas for another week and will get plane back next saturday. Not ideal with family and work commitments but it’s an island with limited flight routes. We could get home Thursday with three flights over 21 hours for £800 each but don’t see the point to get home a day earlier in effect.
Looking forward to some more sun Monday onwards "
Enjoy your extra week |
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By *magine gcCouple
over a year ago
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"It certainly looks a lot calmer there now "
no its still the same, only on the airport the view is now more then 500 meters that's why they fly now.. but its still on the rest worser then yesterday |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"It certainly looks a lot calmer there now
no its still the same, only on the airport the view is now more then 500 meters that's why they fly now.. but its still on the rest worser then yesterday "
. That's good that they are flying now |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Jet2 website now says their LPA flights aren’t flying until Tuesday...."
There has just been a couple on BBC news, in GC and they have said Jet2 aren't flying until tomorrow. They took them to the airport Saturday and they were there for 9 hours, then took them back to resort. They were given good vouchers, but they ran out of food at the airport, so something to be mindful of, when you go. Hope you get away tomorrow |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"We have had email from TUI saying our flight is delayed from 10.40 this morning until 18.20 this evening, flightradar and Bristol airport is still saying 10.40!!!!"
That's confusing, maybe the airport haven't updated their information, not helpful is it? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Nightmare yesterday flew down to Tenerife could not land diverted to faro refuelled back to Edinburgh now sitting in the house fed up and waiting on a update |
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All a bit mixed messages. Flight radar 24 definitely shows planes landing and taking off from LPA in then on usual north to south direction and the sky is brighter with good visibility and only high up grey cloud and even some blue sky is visible. However airline website still says no planes today and tomorrow’s schedule to be published by noon.... |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"Nightmare yesterday flew down to Tenerife could not land diverted to faro refuelled back to Edinburgh now sitting in the house fed up and waiting on a update "
Oh dear, what a nightmare  |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"All a bit mixed messages. Flight radar 24 definitely shows planes landing and taking off from LPA in then on usual north to south direction and the sky is brighter with good visibility and only high up grey cloud and even some blue sky is visible. However airline website still says no planes today and tomorrow’s schedule to be published by noon...."
I wonder why Jet2 aren't flying today. No doubt planes will be in the wrong place, but that's the same for all airlines.
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By *atcoupleCouple
over a year ago
Suffolk - East Anglia |
"We're off tomorrow, BBC weather says everything is ok now so fingers crossed"
Just looked in Flight Radar (app). Flights appear as normal, lots from UK and northern Europe en route to GC Fuerteventura and Tenerife and leaving too so don't worry. |
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"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx"
My friends fly with jet2 from tenerif to belfast .. will fly only tomorrow no time giving yet . They got tex from jet 2 that evernight hotel will be sorted ..nothing was sorted ... friends just booked hotel for 1 night themself .. x |
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I can confirm all airports are now open and operating as normal, the last 2 days have been exceptional nothing seen like this for the last 10 years. Fortunately for me Fuerteventura was probably the least effected strangely we are the nearest island to the African coast and many planes were diverted here before going on to the other islands. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"I can confirm all airports are now open and operating as normal, the last 2 days have been exceptional nothing seen like this for the last 10 years. Fortunately for me Fuerteventura was probably the least effected strangely we are the nearest island to the African coast and many planes were diverted here before going on to the other islands. "
Great news for all, thank you for the update. |
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"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx
My friends fly with jet2 from tenerif to belfast .. will fly only tomorrow no time giving yet . They got tex from jet 2 that evernight hotel will be sorted ..nothing was sorted ... friends just booked hotel for 1 night themself .. x"
It appears all airlines now flying into GC other than jet2?  |
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By *irror15Couple
over a year ago
Liverpool |
"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx
My friends fly with jet2 from tenerif to belfast .. will fly only tomorrow no time giving yet . They got tex from jet 2 that evernight hotel will be sorted ..nothing was sorted ... friends just booked hotel for 1 night themself .. x
It appears all airlines now flying into GC other than jet2? "
Hope they are by next Friday  |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx
My friends fly with jet2 from tenerif to belfast .. will fly only tomorrow no time giving yet . They got tex from jet 2 that evernight hotel will be sorted ..nothing was sorted ... friends just booked hotel for 1 night themself .. x
It appears all airlines now flying into GC other than jet2? "
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Oh dear... |
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"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx"
Just arrived in pdi 2 1/2 days later than planned.
Got yo make the most of it now lol xx |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
chelmsford |
"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx
Just arrived in pdi 2 1/2 days later than planned.
Got yo make the most of it now lol xx"
That's good, enjoy your holiday |
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"We should have flown out yesterday .
Still stuck in a hotel in leeds.
Jet2 have not contacted us yet but there website is saying we MIGHT fly tommorow at 10.20 am .
Xx
Just arrived in pdi 2 1/2 days later than planned.
Got yo make the most of it now lol xx"
Yay!! Have a pint or two |
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Fingers crossed it clears for you soon x