The two 747s were not the only aircraft that were asked to divert to Tenerife due to the dramatic events that were unfolding ...

Airport operator AENA (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) announced that Gran Canaria Airport was "inoperative" due to heavy flooding in the region ...

A Boeing jet carrying 163 passengers from Bristol to Gran Canaria cleared the end of the runway but just ten feet in a near-catastrophic glitch, a report has revealed. The TUI flight from Bristol ...

On Tuesday, Gran Canaria’s airport closed due to water accumulation on the runways, however, one runway was back up and running within half an hour, Spain’s airport group Aena said.

Gran Canaria shut down for several hours ... But as the plane taxis down the runway, the flight crew apparently can't decide whether Air Traffic Control considers this a taxiway proper.

let alone on the same runway at the same time. They’d been diverted from their planned destination [Las Palmas on the nearby island of Gran Canaria] because of a terrorist bomb. I found an ...

A spokesperson for the airport told the Mirror: "From 2.40pm (local time), Gran Canaria Airport was inoperative ... We are working to make the other runway operational as soon as possible.

It had only one runway and limited parking space for Boeing ... time to refuel - taking on 55 tonnes - enough to get him to Gran Canaria's Las Palmas and back to Amsterdam. Due to the refueling ...