Holidaymakers who left Bristol on the early morning flight to Madeira yesterday have told how they ended up spending the night in a Gatwick hotel after a 17-hour journey from hell.
The easyJet flight from Bristol to Funchal circled the Portuguese island twice, diverting to a different island, then back to the Portugal mainland and finally back to Bristol - without the passengers getting off the plane once.
And then when they arrived back in Bristol after an 11-hour flight that got them nowhere, the passengers described ‘chaotic’ scenes as the passengers were left waiting for almost three hours before they were told what was happening to them. Those on board the flight ended up being bussed to Gatwick, checked into a hotel nearby after midnight, and told they would have to get themselves the check-in at 5am this morning to make a second attempt to start their holidays.
