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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Ethan Davies

Diabetic passenger put through "absolute hell" after being stopped from boarding flight home to Manchester

A diabetic carer has described her ‘absolute hell’ trying to fly back to Manchester from Greece after being told they could not board the plane because air staff were ‘exhausted’.

Rachael Utley was coming back from Rhodes after celebrating a friend’s 50th birthday, and was due to fly at 11.25pm on Saturday (July 2). However, she was told during that day that the flight would be delayed.

When she and her pal Jo Greer arrived at the airport, they were ‘stopped’ from boarding by staff, Rachael, 47, said - but that was only the start of her ordeal. easyJet have now apologised for the 'difficulty' customers had.

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