An EasyJet passenger has accused the airline of \u201cabandoning travellers\u201d after hundreds were allegedly left stranded for more than a day at an airport in Montenegro.<\/p>\n
Retired psyhcology lecturer Ron Roberts, 70, said that he spent more than 24 hours waiting at Tivat Airport after his flight to London Luton was repeatedly delayed.<\/p>\n
Dr Roberts told the Mirror<\/a> that he was due to depart at 12.40pm on Saturday but remained stuck at the airport the following afternoon as passengers waited for updates.<\/p>\n Sign up to The Nightly’s newsletters.<\/p>\n Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Describing the ordeal as \u201cabsolute chaos\u201d, he claimed travellers were left with little information and without access to food or water while they waited.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was absolute chaos. They wouldn\u2019t do anything. They left people without food or water,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n Dr Roberts, who was travelling alone after his wife returned home from their holiday early to visit her sister, alleged passengers were ordered to leave the airport overnight because the terminal was closing, despite being told accommodation in the area was already fully booked.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were all thrown out of the airport … forced to sleep in the street,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said you\u2019ve got to go and … you\u2019ve got to go and arrange your own accommodation and travel.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though they\u2019d already told us there\u2019s no free accommodation in the area. I said it\u2019s not possible to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Roberts returned to the airport once it had reopened but found passengers still waiting in a corridor near the departures area for news about when they would be able to leave.<\/p>\n According to Dr Roberts, the conditions inside the airport became increasingly overcrowded overnight, describing the packed terminal as unsafe after witnessing another traveller collapse.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m an old Liverpool fan, if you imagine trying to get into the Kop in the 1960s or 70s, the entire airport is like that … it\u2019s rammed, suffocating, you can\u2019t breathe here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is dangerously unhealthy. And nobody cares.<\/p>\n \u201cMy health is getting endangered, I called the doctor this morning. The guy down there is just told us he\u2019s on stage four cancer, he\u2019s fainted.<\/p>\n \u201cThey called medical staff and they will not do anything. There\u2019s no law here, it is I am not exaggerating, it\u2019s completely lawless.\u201d<\/p>\n An EasyJet spokesperson said that Dr Roberts\u2019 flight was delayed overnight and revealed the cause of the grounded plane.<\/p>\n \u201cFlight EZY2638 from Tivat to London Luton yesterday was delayed overnight due to the aircraft experiencing a bird strike on a previous flight,\u201d a spokesperson told the Mirror.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, the flight has been delayed departing today due to air traffic control restrictions.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been doing all possible to minimise the impact of the disruption and while we always look to secure hotel accommodation, as there was very limited availability, we advised customers they would be reimbursed for booking they own.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this was outside of our control, we are very sorry for the difficulty this caused.<\/p>\n \u201cOur customers\u2019 safety and wellbeing is our highest priority and we are looking into the experience in the airport with our ground handling provider at Tivat, as this is not the level of support we expect for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n A Foreign Office spokesperson said they are \u201cin contact with the local authorities\u201d about the situation at the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EasyJet passenger has accused the airline of \u201cabandoning travellers\u201d after hundreds were allegedly left stranded for more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1720],"class_list":["post-824570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}