Passengers have been left angry and out of pocket after claiming they were "abandoned" in Bristol Airport when their flight was diverted on its way to Cardiff. Travellers on the Wizz Air flight from Corfu to Cardiff saw their plane forced to divert to Bristol after an incident involving a light aircraft at Cardiff Airport on Sunday, July 3.
The airport said its airfield was closed for nearly an hour after a light aircraft went off the end of the runway during landing, but no-one was injured and there was no damage to the aircraft. WalesOnline later reported that "tired and upset" passengers on the flight - which was due to arrive back in Cardiff just after 1pm on Sunday - were forced to wait on the plane on the Bristol Airport runway for several hours before being told they would not be flying back to Cardiff at all and had to get off the plane.
Now another person on the flight has claimed passengers were declined any food or water by Wizz Air staff on-board as they waited on the runway, and eventually had to find their own way back to Cardiff after being left stranded in Bristol Airport. Jason Edwards, 49, from Swansea said the plane had almost landed in Cardiff Airport when an announcement told passengers they would have to wait due to an incident. "They told us there had been an incident on the runway but they didn't have any more information than that," he said.
