‘Complete free for all’: Passengers tell BBC of disrupted travel planspublished at 17:38 BST
17:38 BST
Image source, David LloydImage caption,
David Lloyd, his wife and their friend Jacqui were returning from holiday in Estonia and Finland
We’ve been hearing from you – some of the hundreds of thousands of people thought to have been affected by flight cancellations to and from the UK. Here’s a snippet from around the world:
Clevedon residents David Lloyd and his wife Sarah are currently preparing for a flight to London from Vanta Airport, Helsinki, tomorrow evening – around two days after they were told their original flight was cancelled, just as they got to the gate.
Meanwhile, Addie Kitson, from London, had to board a diverted flight from Chengdu, China, to Stockholm, Sweden, last night, after which she had to wait for a second flight for 17 hours.
Cate Allen and her husband hoped to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia, for their first holiday in two years. They told BBC Your Voice that they had been “saving tirelessly for this trip” and have now lost over £1.5k as their flight was cancelled after a five hour wait.
Alice Goodall was due to fly to Antalya, Turkey, with her partner yesterday when her flight was cancelled around 18:00. She described the scenes in the airport as a “complete free for all”.
“It was so busy that when someone was getting a suitcase, they’d grab it and fall over into the crowd and people were getting hurt. It was completely ridiculous.”
And Chloe Smith from Derbyshire is now trying to re-organise her trip to Los Angeles, US, with her partner which was “planned down to the minute” after her flight yesterday was cancelled.
