Are planes still flying on Tenerife on 11 November?

Yes. At 09:08 Aena reported six cancellations out of 1,176 scheduled flights on the islands, three of them at Tenerife Sur. Passengers should check the status with their airline and Aena.

Do buses and trams run on Tenerife during the strike?

Yes, according to the operators, with 75% minimum service at Titsa and 70% on the tram. Titsa publishes a list of affected journeys on its own website.

What is the strike turnout in the Canary Islands?

UGT gives a provisional 56%, five points below the Spanish average of 61%. Employers put private-sector turnout at about 1%.

Why is there a strike?

CCOO and UGT cite housing, prices and wages, and demand a 7% pay rise for 2027. The strike runs from 00:00 to 24:00.

Are there further strikes or key dates?

No further strike date is known. The Federación Sindical Canaria does not rule out a general strike of its own, and an election follows on 29 November 2026.

Canary Islands general strike: 56% per UGT, 61% in Spain

What changes on 11 November for visitors to Tenerife?

Aena reported six cancellations out of 1,176 scheduled flights across the islands at 09:08. Three were at Tenerife Sur airport and the other three at Gran Canaria.

Anyone flying on 11 November should check the status with the airline and Aena. They should also allow for knock-on delays.

According to the companies, Titsa, the Tenerife bus operator, runs its routes at 75% minimum service, including in the north, in the south and to the airport. Titsa publishes a list of affected journeys on its own website; any journey not on it is guaranteed to run.

The Metrotenerife tram (lines 1 and 2) runs at 70% minimum service on the normal weekday timetable from 06:00 to 24:00. The operators supplied the percentages for bus and tram, and no official source is named.

Lessons did not take place on Tenerife and La Palma. It is not confirmed whether school buses run a minimum service for this strike; during an earlier transport strike, the authority set 100%.

How many people are really striking in the Canary Islands?

UGT Canarias, the regional arm of the UGT union, puts turnout in the Canary Islands at 56%, against 61% across Spain. The union calls the figures provisional and expects a rise once numbers from education and the public administrations arrive.

At Aena, turnout is 100%, UGT says. It calls the strike on the islands “particularly significant” because the service sector shapes the economy.

Employers paint a different picture. CEOE Tenerife, the employers’ confederation, puts private-sector turnout at about 1%, and says retail, hospitality and construction are below 1%. The hotel association CEHAT reports practically no participation, and employers in Las Palmas speak of little impact.

Employers also point to Storm “Charles”, which may have affected attendance. Across Spain, the CCOO and UGT unions gave a range of 41% to 75% early in the morning, before the public administrations, shops and schools had started.

What is this general strike about?

CCOO and UGT called the 24-hour strike for Wednesday 11 November, from 00:00 to 24:00, together with smaller unions such as CGT and CNT. The three motives are housing, prices and wages, and CCOO and UGT also demand a 7% pay rise for 2027.

Manuel Navarro, UGT general secretary in the Canary Islands, calls the strike “clearly about labour law, but without ruling out the political side”. In Spain a general strike is lawful only on employment grounds, so the unions tie housing and wages to it.

Navarro says the last general strike was 14 years ago. According to the newspaper Diario de Avisos, the 2012 strike targeted the Rajoy government’s labour market reform.

In the Canary Islands, Vanesa Frahija (CCOO) and Manuel Navarro (UGT) lead the strike. Frahija hoped that no “abusive” minimum services would be imposed.

Which figures do the unions give for the Canary Islands?

Navarro cites about 211,000 empty homes on the islands and says renting out 20% of them would solve the problem. CCOO gives 17,300 empty homes in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 14,300 in Las Palmas.

According to Ignacio Hernández (CCOO), social housing makes up 1%, the lowest share in Spain. Holiday rentals account for 15%, he says.

Daniel Casal of the Federación Sindical Canaria puts the pay gap to the Spanish average at about 500 euros. Navarro claims the Canary Islands have Spain’s lowest wages and most expensive rented homes.

All these figures come from unions and have not been officially checked. Statistics on wages and housing from ISTAC, the Canary Islands statistics institute, or INE, its Spanish national counterpart, could not be used.

What is still open and what comes next?

No turnout figure from the Canary Islands government, including for the public sector, is available yet. Unai Sordo (CCOO) and Pepe Álvarez (UGT) announced an overall assessment for 12:30 in Madrid, which was not available at the time of going to press.

UGT accuses Metrotenerife of covering the tram’s minimum services with newly named staff, and announces a complaint. The company did not comment in the information available, so this remains an allegation.

An election follows on 29 November 2026, about two weeks after the strike. The Federación Sindical Canaria does not rule out a later general strike of its own on the islands, but gave no date.