As the cloud moves east, Sevilla Airport has been able to reopen this evening.Jerez and La Palma remain closed although Badajoz is now open again. Fuerteventura was closed for the first time at 1900.Earlier flight restrictions in some parts of Spanish airspace to and from 20,000 and 35,000 feet, led to delays in operations, and allowing only 25% of normal airspace capacity over Sevilla, Madrid and Barcelona, but all these were lifted at 2000 on Tuesday night. the Spanish Spanish airports Authority noted that the lifting of this restriction would do a fantastic deal to lucid the delays, as flights would be able to function normally and airlines could return to their normal flight paths.The Spanish Ministry of Defence had on Monday opened its airspace to commercial traffic to try and ease the situation, and the Ministry for Development created a coordination commission to try and assure air services across the country.686 flights of the greater than 5,000 complete were stopped in Spain on Tuesday upto 1300hrs because of the problem, 171 of them on the Canary Islands.
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