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Anger as 1,000 miss flights to sun

Martin Dillon
30/ 7/2005

NEARLY 1,000 holidaymakers have been stranded at Manchester Airport because their flights were delayed for nearly 24 hours.

Two flights were due to leave Terminal One for Florida yesterday but there were problems with the aircraft.

Some passengers claim they saw one of the plane's cargo doors damaged as luggage was being loaded.

Others said airline officials told them their plane was being used to fly passengers to Tenerife because of technical difficulties.

Les Thomas, 43, from Blackburn, was travelling with more than 20 family and friends for a two-week break on a holiday booked through Travel City.

He said: "We were initially told there were technical problems with our plane then we were told there was nothing wrong with our plane but it had been used to fly passengers to Tenerife instead because of a problem with the plane on that route.

"We were messed around all day yesterday before they told us we would not be flying and they put us up in a hotel."

James Taylor, 52, from Dudley in the West Midlands, said: "It's been an absolute nightmare and people are getting very angry. I saw one of the Florida planes damaged after they tried to close doors and it hit a hydraulic lift."

No one was available for comment from Travel City or Air Atlanta Europe.


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   I feel sorry for these people having there holiday ruined but surely they would all prefer to fly on a safe plane than one thats going to fall to bits in the sky !!!!!!!! You can't please everyone can you ???
julie, manchester
1/08/2005 at 06:20

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