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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

When your flight goes awry, it helps to be with a European airline

Circle game: Flightpath of ET77 from Abu Dhabi to Manchester – sorry, Frankfurt – on 7 December - (Flightradar24)

Tens of thousands of airline passengers are waking up on Sunday morning where they did not intend to be.

Storm Darragh traumatised the UK aviation industry. One dispatcher at London Stansted told me: “This is the worst day I’ve had in the last two years.

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