{"id":535775,"date":"2026-07-06T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:28:09","slug":"mount-etna-eruption-live-red-alert-as-volcano-spews-ash-and-catania-airport-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535775\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Etna eruption live: Red alert as volcano spews ash and Catania Airport closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A passenger says that he was waiting for four hours at Palermo Airport after his flight to Catania was diverted &#8211; and without buses he has had to pay 600 euros for a taxi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He wrote on Facebook: &#8220;Departure with over an hour delay, flight diverted to Palermo and, once landed, another hour waiting in the plane without any information. At the airport, total chaos: no order in flight management, no indication of buses to reach Catania, no assistance and not even a bottle of water after hours of waiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We\u2019ve been standing for about four hours waiting for buses that never came. In the end we were forced to pay for a taxi, spending around 600\u20ac, not knowing if we will ever get a refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Etna\u2019s activity is certainly not something new, it\u2019s a situation that happens regularly. For this reason you would expect an efficient organizational plan and an appropriate assistance for passengers. On the contrary, the impression was of a total improvisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;At this point it would have been much better to cancel the flight, instead of passengers wasting hours to land at an airport two and a half hours away from their final destination, without any support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1_Mount-Etna-erupts-sending-ash-plume-over-Catania-Sicily.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Smoke coming from Mount Etna\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Smoke coming from Mount Etna(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger says that he was waiting for four hours at Palermo Airport after his flight to Catania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2476,42,102,43,40,38,41,39,10926],"class_list":["post-535775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-headlines","tag-italy","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}