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Brit travel chaos after flights to Spain are diverted hundreds of kilometres away due to ‘historic’ blackout

Anyone with flights or trains are urged to check the status of their booking before travelling.

Last updated: April 29, 2025 7:40 am
Laurence Dollimore
Published: April 29, 2025
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Brits have complained of travel disruption in Spain after their flights were diverted hundreds of kilometres away from their intended destinations.

It comes amid ongoing disruption to trains and flights following a ‘historic’ power outage across the Iberian Peninsula.

READ MORE: Power outage sparks panic buying of food and petrol on Spain’s Costa del Sol

An emergency was declared in eight regions on Monday night, including in Andalucia and Valencia. The Balearic and Canary Islands were spared from the blackout.

British tourist Molly Stagg wrote on Facebook in the early hours of Tuesday: ‘Just landed in Barcelona instead of Alicante!

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‘Do not travel to Benidorm there is a power cut… me and my family are stranded in Barcelona airport with no transfers anywhere.’

READ MORE: Emergency declared in eight regions of Spain due to blackout

Meanwhile, at around 2am, Georgina Neve wrote: ‘I was supposed to arrive In Malaga tonight. The plane had to go to Madrid.

‘We were kept on plane another four hours as we didn’t land at terminal… I’m in Madrid. I’m on my own and scared to sleep as on street and trying to find hotel.

‘They say can get a train tomorrow but I have no idea what I’m doing. Tired and scared to sleep incase I get robbed.’

By 6am on Tuesday, electricity was reported to have returned to 99% of the country, however delays could continue to have an effect on travel services.

Anyone with flights or trains are urged to check the status of their booking before travelling.

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In an address to the nation on Monday night, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez confirmed that eight regions had activated the Civil Protection Emergency Plan (Level 3), and that the government would be leading the response.

On the cause of the outage he said: ‘It’s something that specialists haven’t been able to determine yet, but they will, and the institutions are working to understand what happened.’ He added that no hypothesis had been ruled out.

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