Popular Italian airport closed and flights cancelled because of wildfires
The island's main airport of Catania, Italy's fifth-biggest, was closed last week due to a fire in a terminal building and has reopened only for a few flights.have cancelled all routes to and from Catania until next month.
Catania's Vincenzo Bellini Airport has both inbound and outbound flights to a total of 91 destinations and 100,000s passengers are expected to beThe disruption is the result of a fire that broke out in Terminal A last Sunday night, in which no one was injured and the cause of which remains unknown. The airport reopened on Monday but still has limited access, with only four flights permitted to land per hour until tomorrow.In some parts of eastern Sicily, temperatures rose to 47.6C on Monday with 16 cities put on red alert in Italy.and Catania, where power and water supply cuts that local officials blamed in part on the heat have been frequent in recent days.
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