Some English language media are reporting that three Ryanair aircraft have had to make emergency landings in Valencia because they had run out of fuel. The reports say they originally tried to land in Madrid, but summer storms prevented that and they were diverted to Manises Airport in Valencia. The pilots sent out urgent alerts to the control tower to say there were on their way. One of the pilots called for an ambulance and police to be at the scene. The Irish low-cost airline has neither confirmed nor denied that the planes were running out of fuel, but it could be they were only carrying enough fuel to get safely to Madrid. These reports have only just been published, but we think what really happened was that one plane, a Boeing 737, was flying to Alicante from Stansted with 138 passengers and three crew on board, and that storms had preventing them from landing in El Alter twice. They were ordered to Valencia airport in Manises, as the three tanks of fuel were running on empty. The pilots called a ‘Mayday’ but managed to land safely on runway 12. This happened on May 14 this year, so we wonder why there are three reports of something similar happening on the same day now. Ryanair has had a recent argument with the Spanish Airports Authority, AENA, over increased airport taxes, and has reduced the number of its flights to Spain as a result, claiming the rise in costs would ‘seriously hurt the low-cost model’.
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