Spain was said to be furious over the Gibraltar display, claiming that the Red Arrows would have "invaded" Spanish airspace. Organisers in Minorca said that they had all the correct paperwork.
The Foreign Office in Spain issued the following announcement on Monday night: "Unfortunately, we are required to cancel the Red Arrows display planned for tomorrow (today) in Minorca. The organisation of international airshows is hugely complex and on this occasion unforeseen circumstances have arisen that mean the airshow cannot take place tomorrow (today).
"We are hugely grateful to the Minorcan authorities for their support on the preparations and we sincerely regret the short notice of this cancellation. "We hope the Red Arrows can return another time."
There is expected to be some major fallout from the decision on Minorca today. As one local resident said: "it is not a question of the display being cancelled it was the lateness in which the decision was announced...."
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Maybe the pilots are still using the old paper licences
Would it have anything to do with Elon Musk's Starling passing by this evening.
Clean air over Minorca today, what's not to like.
Andy WalkerGibraltar air base is owned and operated by the RAF. Why wouldn’t a RAF jet go there. The people of Minorca only have to ask the folk of much neglected La Linea the costs of the Spanish governments obsession with Gibraltar…
It's Spains fault. Maybe the Spanish red arrows could put on a show? Oh wait they don't have any planes and couldn't organise a pi$$ up in a brewery.