“It looks like we miss the wedding”

The passengers remained stranded across Europe on Wednesday after airlines were triggered in Great Britain.

Hundreds of thousands of people confronted the summer holidays after technical problems were able to close the London airspace for more than an hour.

Despite the determination, the failure left travelers to delays hours ago because it was feared that disorders could take days.

Monica Clare, a 68-year-old from London, fears that she will miss a wedding after her Aer Lingus flight from Heathrow was canceled to the Republic of Ireland.

With her 71 -year -old cousin Geri Hawkins, she was supposed to fly at 2:40 p.m. for a wedding in Limerick. But after he was stranded on the runway, the flight was canceled after the end of the captain’s layer.

“The wedding is in Limerick on Friday, but a hotel and a rental car are waiting for us tonight,” Ms. Clare told The Telegraph. “I was excited to come to Shannon while it is still daylight because I should drive when I come to the other.

“But at 5:30 p.m. the captain informed us that her layer was over, so that Aer Lingus HQ in Dublin canceled the flight. We said we should be updated at the departure terminal when and how we can travel. We are now fed up.

“We were asked to wait for a phone update over a flight tomorrow, but others were told that all flights are already full tomorrow. It is totally terrible. We probably have to go home and wait when the next available flight is. It looks like we’re missing the wedding.”

The civil aviation authority said that passengers who are affected by the failure of air traffic control should receive “food and drinks” if they are stranded and those who are forced to stay overnight receive hotel accommodations.

However, you do not receive compensation for cancellations or delays, since the error is regarded as a “extraordinary circumstances” and not as a guilt for the airline.

The 49 -year -old Durand Meachem, a passenger with Heathrow, traveled with his partner and two daughters on a “journey of a life” in New York, London, Dubai and Thailand to mark his upcoming 50th birthday.

“We should take off at 10:30 p.m., but there were no flights in there, all flights are delayed,” he said.

Children on board a grounded aircraft in Heathrow were offered a tour of the cockpit during their delay.

Dionne Ukleja, who travels with her teenage daughter from Heathrow to Houston, Texas, said: “At some point the pilot even opened the flight deck and invited the children to take a look at it.”

“We should take off at 2:50 p.m.,” she said. “We were third in the queue when the radar went down. They let us sit on the asphalt for a while before we asked ourselves to park over the airport next to the concorde. After about 20 minutes we were sent back to the stands.”

In Edinburgh, a group of 40 French holidaymakers was stranded after two flights to Paris were canceled.

Sophie Viud, 49, said she was “depressed” when her flight was canceled and now had to fly to Milan and then to the French capital on Thursday morning.

Another passenger who did not want to be named added: “It is better that the flight will be canceled than being killed.”

Credit: Isabella Shepherd Evans for the Telegraph

The 23-year-old Isabella Shepherd-Evans was “on the asphalt” in Faro, Portugal after her Easyjet flight to London Gatwick was overturned when the pilot was touching the runway.

“Flight attendants distributed water and both doors were opened because they warn of protracted delays,” she said.

The flight finally started at 4:53 p.m., an hour and a half after the planned departure at 3:25 p.m.

Jack Rickards Jet2 flight from Newcastle to Rhodes, Greece, was delayed on the failure for an hour.

“We were lucky enough to get a new departure route via Scotland and the Netherlands, so that my flight is only about an hour late,” he said. “Not everyone else is so lucky.”

The 47 -year -old Domenico Sortino was diverted to Paris after his Easyjet flight from Naples, Italy, was diverted to Gatwick to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

He said he wanted to “return home”, but waiting to wait for information on how to do this.

The heavily pregnant Grace Drury, 36, was with her two small children and the 41 -year -old husband Dean in Cyprus after her Easyjet flight to Gatwick was canceled.

The family of four had canceled her flight while waiting at Larnaca Airport of the Mediterranean island.

“Six months who received the lowest easyjet with two small children and no support from anyone that he can get,” Ms. Drury told the Telegraph.

The couple and her daughters Dotty, Drei and Lyra, one, had just enjoyed a vacation in Cyprus and were supposed to return to Great Britain.

After they had managed to check in and the security, they only became delayed when they arrived at the departure gate that their flight was delayed at 6:50 p.m. to 1.48 a.m.

It was canceled later and the family went to a local hotel for the night. They were offered a replacement flight on Thursday at 10:45 p.m.

“Zero Info, Zero Ground employee, no representation of Easyjet,” said Drury, a sports marketing consultant. “Many people were stranded and there was no one to speak to.

“The airport staff said it was not their problem and there was no Easyjet customer service employee in the departure area. We all only sat without information. No water, no food, no vouchers, nothing nothing.

“It is shameful that nobody from Easyjet was here to deliver water. Their diligence was terrible for a young family.”

A spokesman for Easyjet said: “We are sorry that Ms. Drury and her family were initially delayed on their journey home because their plane experienced a bird strike on an earlier flight.

“Since your flight was earned earlier due to the effects of the ATC error today, our customer service team Ms. Drury contacted the accommodation and meals overnight for the family and re -book them tomorrow on the next available flight.

“While this was outside of our control, it excuse us, the difficulties that this will cause.”