MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban Airport and Airport Services Company (ECASA) reported this Saturday, in a statementthat all the country’s airports remained “operational”.
ECASA also attributed the delays and cancellations of flights reported this Saturday to “an affectation in the technological systems that support the passenger check-in service.”
“Under these conditions, most of the planned flights were carried out, except for some operations that were canceled by decision of the airlines and the affected passengers have had the attention established for these cases,” reads the company’s statement.
According to ECASA, at 8:00 p.m. this Saturday, the check-in system was restored and operations were carried out “normally.”
Due to the effects of “José Martí” International Airport the airline American Airlines suspended five of its six flights scheduled for this Saturday, which caused a great congestion in the air terminal.
According to statements to CyberCuba According to an employee of the “José Martí” International Airport, who asked not to be identified, the electricity failures “caused problems in the check-in for passenger boarding” and all the terminals had to operate with their power plants.
This Saturday, hundreds of Cubans were stranded at the airports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Havana due to the cancellation of flights between the United States and Cuba.
“Hundreds of Cubans are stranded at the airports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Havana due to a sudden cancellation of flights to Cuba,” wrote on Twitter the journalist Mario J. Pentón.
This weekend Cuba has lived a new wave of popular protests due to the prolonged power outage that occurred after Hurricane Ian passed through the West of the Island.
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