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The airlines begin to count the damage after the storm passed through Barajas | Companies

The almost ten days of difficulties and piecework at the Madrid-Barajas airport, due to the passing of the storm Filomena and the subsequent cold wave, have left at least a dozen aircraft under review. Four of them, as the ASAE union announced yesterday, belong to Iberia: two A350 aircraft, one A330 and one A320.

The group also quantified a plane of Air Europa and the question was opened about damages in some unit of Turkish Airlines, among other airlines. Sources from the aircraft maintenance services in Barajas assure that, indeed, there are aircraft affected, in one way or another, by the ice. It is time to quantify damages, a task that airlines have already done, and for insurance to enter.

Detail of the blow to the engine casing of one of the Skyteam alliance aircraft affected by the ice at Barajas airport.


The pilots union Sepla It had expressed its concern in the middle of the storm that the ice accumulated in taxiways and aircraft parking areas could damage the engines or essential parts of the fuselage.

From Iberia, the consequences were minimized yesterday and a spokesman assured that none of its four planes forced to go through the workshops has functional failures: “The damage has occurred in the fairings that cover the engines, but the machinery does not seem affected in any of the cases”.

Sepla himself, who came to speak of a security risk derived from the infrastructure situation, is trying to gather data to prepare his own part of incidents and move to the revision of the winter emergency plan of the airport with the most traffic in the country .

From the Aena union ASAE It has been insisted on social networks that the problem is not in the color of the Government, recalling that the snowfalls of 2018 also collapsed Barajas with the PP at the head of the Ministry of Development. The difficulties in operating at the airport since Friday, January 8, caused, in the middle of last week, the confrontation between the Government and the PP.

The president of Aena, Maurici Lucena, and its general director for the aeronautical business, Javier Marin, among other managers, have visited Madrid-Barajas several times since it started to snow. After the crisis comes the review of the winter emergency plan.

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