- The weather outlook is poor, which is why we have decided to cancel departures to and from Scandinavia. The risk is very high that we have to make redirects, so we are waiting for better weather, says Andreas Hjørnholm, press officer at Norwegian, to SVT News at 11.30 am on Sunday.

Since the planes have been outdoors in the sandstorm, Norwegian is now required to carry out a technical check of all planes for safety reasons, to ensure that they are airworthy. The airline has three planes standing on Tenerife, and eight on Gran Canaria.

During Saturday, three Norwegian flights would have departed, but all were canceled.

SAS: Don't know when it's done

During Sunday, SAS also canceled three flights from Gran Canaria to Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm. No flights will be able to take off until Monday at the earliest, ”says John Eckhoff, SAS press chief.

- Since the flights have been outdoors in the sandstorm, it has to undergo a technical examination so that we know that they are safe to fly with. Exactly when it's clear we don't know.

Two of the SAS planes that were redirected to Portugal and Tenerife on Saturday will bring their passengers to Gran Canaria and pick up new passengers to Gothenburg and Copenhagen.

- Of course, that's not enough. We had a total of seven flights canceled yesterday and each flight had about 180 passengers, says Eckhoff.