For the second day in a row the planes could not fly this Sunday to and from the Canary Island The Palm, by the ashes expelled by the volcano which went into operation for a month.
Airlines canceled the 38 flights scheduled for Sunday, many of them from other islands in the Atlantic archipelago off Morocco, an airport spokesman said.
Only four of the 34 flights scheduled for Saturday were able to go as planned.
The local company Binter indicated that “it is always attentive to the meteorological evolution, so that it will try to recover the activity as soon as possible”.
But he added that this will be possible “as long as conditions allow flights to be resumed, guaranteeing their safety.”
The Cumbre Vieja volcano, which is 15 kilometers west of the airport, erupted on September 19, launching rivers of lava that have reached the sea.
Although no one died, the lava has covered 750 hectares and destroyed 1,800 buildings, including hundreds of houses, according to the European disaster monitoring program Copernico.
Some 7,000 people have been evacuated from their homes on the island, which has a population of 85,000.
La Palma airport has been closed twice since the eruption began and companies have sporadically canceled flights.
The head of the archipelago’s regional government, Angel Victor Torres, said on Sunday there is no indication that volcanic activity is decreasing.
The Spanish head of government Pedro Sánchez told private television La Sexta on Thursday that “we are going to put all the money that is needed to rebuild that wonderful island.”
Sánchez added that “we will be there until we rebuild 100 percent of everything that this volcano has destroyed.”
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