{"id":690609,"date":"2026-07-14T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690609\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:56:11","slug":"ryanair-passengers-stage-mutiny-against-captain-as-three-hour-flight-turns-into-12-hour-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690609\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair passengers stage ‘mutiny’ against captain as three-hour flight turns into 12-hour nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ryanair flight descended into a hellish 12-hour ordeal after severe weather forced the aircraft to land twice in different countries.<\/p>\n

Flight RK8288 left London Stansted for Tirana at 4pm on June 3, and was expected to reach Albania within three hours.<\/p>\n

Instead, passengers endured diversions to Brindisi in Italy and Thessaloniki in Greece as thunderstorms stopped the craft landing at Tirana Airport.<\/p>\n

The plane finally touched down in the Albanian capital at 5am local time, roughly nine hours behind schedule.<\/p>\n

But on its second stop in Greece, police were called aboard the aircraft to restore order after frustrated travellers began confronting crew members.<\/p>\n

The aircraft was filled with rowdy stag party groups and young travellers clutching duty-free vodka bottles ahead of festival season in the Balkan nation.<\/p>\n

Several British passengers were said to have been visibly drunk before takeoff.<\/p>\n

A source told the Mail that food and water ran out during the lengthy delays.<\/p>\n

Passengers were initially refused the chance to buy refreshments while stranded on the tarmac in Italy.<\/p>\n

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Passengers staged a ‘mutiny’ as tensions boiled over on the cut-price carrier flight<\/p>\n

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When sales eventually resumed, everything except a few crisp packets quickly sold out.<\/p>\n

One heavily drunk passenger refused to follow instructions and wandered around the cabin.<\/p>\n

An air hostess was forced to physically restrain him.<\/p>\n

“She literally grabs him, picks him up like a child, and pushes him back down to his seat… it was mental,” the source said.<\/p>\n

When the aircraft reached Thessaloniki, passengers staged what the source described as a “mutiny” against the captain.<\/p>\n

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An air hostess was forced to physically restrain one drunk passenger mid-flight<\/p>\n

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“He’s a coward, the pilot needs to come out and face us like a man!” a group of enraged men shouted towards the cockpit.<\/p>\n

Around 12 travellers announced they would not remain on board, telling the pilot: “There’s no way you can keep us here.”<\/p>\n

Greek police then boarded the jet and are believed to have told crew to let the disgruntled passengers leave.<\/p>\n

“People are shouting into the pilot deck, calling him a coward, and telling him to get out and face them like a man,” the passenger said.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is losing their mind,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The aircraft was filled with rowdy stag party groups and young travellers clutching duty-free vodka bottles<\/p>\n

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But the source told the newspaper how his attempt to claim compensation was automatically rejected when he entered his flight number.<\/p>\n

“It was an automatic rejection as soon as I put my flight number in. I got an automated email being like: ‘Your claim’s been rejected,'” he said.<\/p>\n

He has now escalated his dispute through AviationADR in pursuit of reimbursement.<\/p>\n

In correspondence seen by the Daily Mail, Ryanair stated the flight was “disrupted due to unexpected and extraordinary circumstances, which were beyond our control”.<\/p>\n

A Ryanair spokesman said the diversions occurred due to adverse weather at Tirana Airport and a subsequent thunderstorm.<\/p>\n

The airline added that crew opened its onboard bars after 45 minutes so passengers could access refreshments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ryanair flight descended into a hellish 12-hour ordeal after severe weather forced the aircraft to land twice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,50,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}