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Milo Boyd

Passenger furious at easyJet compensation denial after 'prisoner' treatment

A holidaymaker is convinced she's owed compensation she spent five hours stuck onboard an eventually cancelled flight with no food and only one cup of water.

Valerie Coules ended up trudging back to her home in Clerkenwell, London after her very delayed easyJet flight from Gatwick to Bodrum, Turkey was eventually cancelled.

The budget airline has denied the 72-year-old's compensation request, claiming that "air traffic control restrictions" stopped the plane from taking off - meaning the flight was affected by “extraordinary circumstances” and easyJet is not liable.

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