Traffic was not expected to resume until Thursday. It was finally a day in advance that flights resumed this Wednesday morning at Brest airport which had been completely paralyzed since the night of December 30 to 31. While storm Géraldine swept across the Atlantic coast, lightning struck the airport control tower that night, seriously damaging the equipment and preventing any takeoff or landing on the runway.
“The mobilization of air navigation technical teams until late in the evening of Tuesday, January 2, allowed the partial return to service of equipment damaged by lightning,” the airport underlined on its website, specifying that the program of Flights have been operating since Wednesday morning.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), however, invites passengers to “contact their airline to find out the status of flight rescheduling. » “The technical teams from the Air Navigation Service are continuing the operations to repair the control tower equipment as well as the replacement of the main antenna, which will take several days,” she specifies.