Palermo airport was closed on Tuesday morning after wildfires in the hills around the Sicilian city reached the airport perimeter.
Teams of firefighters were working to put out the blaze, and the airport is scheduled to reopen at 11 am local time.
As of 7.30 am eight flights had been cancelled.
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The airport was also isolated by land for several hours due to a combination of road closures and the suspension of railway services to Palermo.
The island’s main airport of Catania, Italy’s fifth-biggest, was closed last week due to a fire in a terminal building and has reopened only for a few flights.