Holiday chaos after airport strikes confirmed in Brit holiday hotspot

Hundreds of thousands of Brits heading for some much-needed Easter sun abroad may face devastating disruption after a major hotspot for UK travellers announced massive walkouts at its airports.

Check-in staff, baggage handlers and aircraft assistants are just some of those who are set to walk out in the following days and weeks in several Canary Island airports, which could see flights cancelled, massive delays and queues.

The strikes are expected to impact both South and North airports in Tenerife, which welcomes nearly 3 million British tourists a year, as well as Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuertaventura, as reported by local news outlet Canarian Weekly

The walkouts are expected to devastate key services for airlines such as easyJet, Jet2 and AER Lingus, as well as several others.

More than 1500 airport employees are expected to walk out, according to reports, with several unions across the Canary Islands furious at ongoing breaches of pay and below-standard working conditions.

Last-ditch talks reportedly broke down between unions and employers this week, with the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) in the Canary Islands warning that there will be "two parallel strikes" unless an 11th-hour solution is found.

Major airports on Tenerife and Gran Canaria will see industrial action take place between the 2nd and the 6th April.

Separate walkouts are scheduled three times a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays all next week.

The strikes are not the only headache that British tourists have faced travelling to the Canary Islands in recent weeks, with Storm Therese causing devastation across the archipelago, but especially on UK favourite Tenerife, where an 'emergency situation' was declared following landslides and flooding.

Furthermore, the islands have also been hit by dozens of earthquakes, in what has been described as a rare tectonic phenomenon called a seismic swarm.

A seismic or earthquake swarm takes place when a series of earthquakes occur in a local area over days, months, or years without one single, dominant mainshock.

The Canary Island of Tenerife first experienced this swarm effect in February this year, seeing more than 100 quakes being felt across the island.