Half-term travellers struggle as flights cancelled and road delays expected

Passengers sleeping at Stansted airport overnight as flight cancellations and excessive delays caused chaos during half-term week. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Travellers hoping to enjoy a half-term getaway have continued to be hit by cancelled and overbooked flights .

Passengers stranded at Gatwick have expressed their anger after easyJet cancelled more than 200 flights from the airport at short notice during one of the year’s busiest travel periods. Tui also axed a number of flights and the budget Spanish airline Vueling has been flooded with complaints from passengers bumped off overbooked flights.