The first repatriation flights are due to arrive on fire-ravaged Rhodes to rescue British holidaymakers stuck in a “living nightmare”
. Airline easyJet will operate two rescue flights totalling 421 seats on Monday and a third on Tuesday, in addition to its nine scheduled flights to the Greek island.
Further easyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair flights from Rhodes were scheduled to arrive at Gatwick, Stansted and Bristol on Monday afternoon. On Saturday, families fled their hotels, leaving their belongings behind, as the huge flames crawled closer, with some having to spend the night in local stadiums and schools.
Helen Tonks, a mother of six from Cheshire, said she was flown into a “living nightmare” by TUI at 11pm on Saturday and discovered her hotel had been closed. She said she and her family were “abandoned” and forced to sleep with hundreds of others on a school floor. He told the PA news agency: “We were originally in Kiotari in a villa but were moved to Gennadi at about 2pm. There were lots of people in Gennadi sent from the hotels – many in just swimsuits having been told to leave everything in the hotel.
Dan Jones, a sports teacher from Torquay, had to climb on to a fishing trawler with his sons on Saturday night, describing it as “the scariest moment” in his life, and adding: “What brave boys.” “It was all very confusing – the instructions from the hotel manager were unclear. You had to make your own choice in the end. I’ve had to leave quite a lot of luggage in the hotel.”
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