TWO airports in Europe that see thousands of passengers through their doors are set to close for major upgrades.
During this time flights will be diverted and one airport will see flights cancelled during both the summer holidays and October half-term.
The first major airport closing its doors to passengers is Almeria Airport in Spain which each year handles around 800,000 passengers.
In February 2028, it will shut for six days to upgrade its runway with all scheduled flights during that time to be cancelled.
Airlines like Ryanair, easyJet and Iberia which fly out of the airport have been notified by Spain’s airports operator Aena about the closure.
There will be further disruption too as the revamp is part of a 19-month €29million (£24.8million) project to upgrade the entire airport.
During this period there will be work at night between 10:45pm and 7:10am the following day.
Between these hours, flights could be impacted as well.
Direct routes from Almeria Airport to the UK London Southend, Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds Bradford and Birmingham.
The airlines will have to reschedule flights or divert the routes.
The revamp will mark the first work on the runway in 20 years.
The second major European airport to close its doors is Charleroi Airport in Brussels which will close for almost three months.
For 11 weeks, the runway will be closed for renovation and the interior airport revamped.
Flights will be impacted between August 15 and October 31 in 2028.
It will disrupt passengers heading to Brussels during the school summer holidays and October half-term break.
Airlines that operate to and from the airport from the UK include Ryanair and Wizz Air to cities Edinburgh, Manchester and Newcastle.
Airlines will need to reroute their flights to different airports during that time.
The airport is the second largest in Belgium – it sees 30,000 passengers each day and around 11.2million people every year.
On the development, the airport said: “A complete refurbishment of Charleroi airport’s sole runway, together with other major infrastructure modernisation works, has been scheduled by SOWAER (the company behind the works) for the second half of 2028.”