Dozens more flights have been grounded today on top of 1,200 cancellations yesterday after National Air Traffic Services (Nats) suffered a 'technical issue'.
Dozens more flights have been grounded today on top of more than 1,200 cancellations yesterday after
The boss of the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed today that passengers can expect to be provided with food and drink as well as accommodation if delayed overnight. 'The next flight is in 12 days so we are stuck here. The airport offered some families with kids hotels but they have to keep getting taxis there and back. It's 200 euros from the airport to the hotel. No one has the money for it. I can't afford a hotel. And there's nobody here to tell us anything.'
Jo Winter and her children ended up paying £300 to hire a car and drive three hours to Caen on Monday night, staying in a £150 hotel, before boarding a ferry crossing back to the UK todayKatrina Harrison and her family - including one-year-old twin grandchildren - stayed at Leeds Bradford Airport after their flight to Antalya was cancelled on Monday afternoon.
However, the bride and groom-to-be need to register their marriage at a local court before they can be legally wed - and while they have managed to book on to a flight to Milan on Wednesday, they have 'no idea' whether that too will be cancelled, the BBC reports.He told MailOnline: 'E Mary Byrne, who was also on the same flight, said: 'I don't understand why Jet2 can't just delay the flight.
Kirstie Rowley, 52, a payroll and finance officer from Rochdale , was also travelling to Corfu on the 7.30am flight 'It is wrong. Everyone is trying to make a quick buck and cash in on what is happening. I am fed up and have been looking forward to this holiday.' Instead, they ended up paying £300 to hire a car and drive three hours to Caen on Monday night, staying in a £150 hotel, before boarding a ferry crossing back to the UK today.
Sports journalist Tim Adams is enduring a similar, convoluted journey, spending the best part of £400 on getting back to the UK.A lack of Eurostar trains means he will have to stay in the French capital overnight before finally returning to London on Thursday evening. Jo Winter was enjoying her first family holiday with her three children in four years before the chaos unfoldedPassengers queue for check-in in the car park at Manchester Airport's Terminal OnePassengers queue for check-in at Manchester Airport's Terminal Two this morning
People were jostling to speak to Jet2 staff to get information but left frustrated with no answers as to what was happening. Jamie Sedman, 33, from York, told how he and his partner constructed makeshift beds from the Jet2 stands and a crate for their three children aged fifteen, nine and six, after being forced to spend the night in the airport.
Lorry driver Jamie was told that his Jet2 flight to Leeds and Bradford Airport was due to depart four different times but was still waiting to be checked-in.'The thing that really annoys me the most is no one knew what was going on. The reps at the hotel were appalling, I've never known anything like it. Ryanair kept people in their hotels.
Mandy Calvert , 57, from Guisborough and her friend Shauna Smith , 32, from Middlesbrough both had to endure a night in the airport without any sleep Mandy said: 'Jet2 have treated us with no dignity. We've had no sleep at all and just sat on our wet towels on the floor. Other people were sleeping on the floor and seats. I feel so sorry for people with little kids.
'I don't feel able to drive from the airport when we do get back because I've had no sleep. My mum is going to meet us at the airport and drive my car, whenever we get home. Chris Manning, 42, from Shropshire, was told his Jet2 flight to Manchester would be at 12.15pm. His family-of-four, comprising two children aged five and eleven, were told that there was no issue when they arrived at the airport.
Uel O'Neill and Rachel O'Neill have had to spend £4,000 on a new Jet2 flight for this Sunday to get to Belfast with their children Tilly, 7, Sam, 8, and James, five, after their Easyjet flight was cancelled today. 'We got a glass of water each which we didn't have to pay for. But we had to buy other food and drinks and they were running out of food and juice for the kids. By the time they got to my aisle there wasn't much left.
'We walked off the plane and three Jet2 staff looked at us and said 'why are you getting off the plane'? They didn't even know we were coming back into the airport.'Then we were told that we had to get our own hotel and transfer because Jet2 couldn't get a hotel for all of us.' Passengers wait at Stansted Airport, north of London, on August 29, 2023 after UK flights were delayed over a technical issuAt Heathrow, passengers revealed how they had to make last minute changes to their travel plans following the air traffic control chaos.
'I don't understand how, in this day and age, the air traffic IT system could collapse like this? It's a joke and it's ruined things for a lot of us.'He said: 'I had to book a hotel near Heathrow but luckily my flight is going out today. I don't understand why there's always some kind of travel chaos in Britain when there's a bank holiday?
'I've only been here to see my daughter for a quick weekend. I had to call work and rearrange everything.'I finally flew to Frankfurt this morning and I will be in Prague about 2pm. I'm really not sure what to think, it was really messy.'We didn't know what was going to happen. It was stressful, finding people to ask. We didn't know what's going to happen. We found one lady and she helped us.
Builder Ashley Weaver, 35, waited three hours for his luggage at Birmingham Airport after he and his family flew home from a £12,000 holiday in Orlando, Florida. 'We heard the radio and said, 'Oh well, we will go the airport and if we get there, we get there' - we like to go with the flow. There is nothing to worry about on the app but we will soon find out.'
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