Storm Isha sparks Ryanair chaos as passengers left stranded

Passengers have been left stranded at airports throughout Europe and are going through delays of as much as 9 hours as Ryanair diverts its planes throughout storm Isha. 

Many planes have been grounded, with flights sure for Britain and Ireland compelled to divert to mainland Europe as an alternative.

Furious passengers took to social media to slam the airline for its lack of communication, with many claiming they’ve been left stranded for hours at airports overseas. 

Others claimed households with younger youngsters have been left ready ‘all evening’ after the airline cancelled their flight and diverted them to a different airport. 

Flightradar knowledge reveals how a Ryanair flight from Tenerife sure for Dublin was diverted to France, whereas one other airplane headed for Scotland was rerouted to Germany as winds struck the nation.

One irritated passengers wrote on X: ‘@Ryanair thanks for leaving all of the Tenerife South passengers stranded at cologne airport final evening. You promised lodges. You delivered nothing. And the factor is you do not care. Stranded households with you[ng] children. Older passengers stranded. Useless #Ryanair ineffective.’ 

Another passenger added: ‘Cancelled flight from Newquay.  You’ve put us… (31) on a bus to Stansted for 6hrs solely to depart us stranded on the airport, there are households with very younger youngsters simply ready round all evening. It’s NOT okay @Ryanair.’ 

A 3rd wrote: ‘Stranded in Glasgow airport no @Ryanair workers to fly us house after being diverted from Dublin airport yesterday. No communication in anyway from Ryanair.’ 

Other X customers shared memes in response to the diversions, with one writing: ‘Flew from Manchester to Dublin as we speak, solely we did not land in Dublin, or again to Manchester. Bonjour from Paris!’

A spokesperson for Ryanair advised MailOnline: ‘Due to Storm Isha, some flights to/from the UK and Ireland yesterday and as we speak have regrettably been cancelled/delayed.

‘We are working laborious to reaccommodate affected passengers and advise all passengers on account of journey to/from the UK or Ireland as we speak to test their Ryanair app for the newest updates on their flight.

‘Ryanair sincerely apologises to all passengers affected by these storm-related disruptions, that are solely past our management and have impacted all airways working to/from the UK and Ireland yesterday.’

Passengers have been left stranded 500 miles away from their supposed vacation spot after their Manchester to Dublin flight was compelled to divert to Paris because the storm rolled in on Sunday. 

The flight, which was initially on account of land at Dublin International Airport at round 3.30pm, was already delayed by an hour when leaving Manchester Airport on Sunday afternoon.

However, on account of ‘harmful’ winds, the airplane was compelled to circle over the Irish Sea a number of occasions earlier than aborting its touchdown and as an alternative flying to Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, touchdown shortly earlier than 5.30pm.

Dublin International Airport had already issued a public warning about attainable flight cancellations, delays and a stream of aborted landings, with quite a few different flights diverting to Manchester and different airports throughout the nation.

Two hours later, at 7.30pm, one passenger on board the Ryanair flight mentioned these on board have been nonetheless caught on the runway in Paris.

A flight from Copenhagen to Dublin was additionally diverted to Manchester yesterday. 

It took off at 5:15pm final evening, circled close to Dublin earlier than being diverted to Belfast and headed again to Manchester – however really landed on the John Lennon Airport in Liverpool as an alternative.

According to Flightradar, this took 11 hours. It is often a one hour flight from Manchester to Dublin.

One Ryanair flight flying from Manchester to London’s Stansted Airport tried to land however then took the passengers to Budapest as an alternative.

Another passenger who boarded a flight at Edinburgh yesterday for a one hour flight to Bristol mentioned she ended up in Paris.

Kim Woodcock, 67, and the opposite passengers waited on the tarmac for 4 hours and people with a passport finally went to lodges. 

But those that did not – round 50 – needed to sleep within the departure lounge as an alternative.

They got a tuna sandwich every and a bottle of water however no scorching meals or drinks. 

Ms Woodcock spent the evening sleeping on the ground, utilizing her bag as a pillow.

She advised MailOnline: ‘I’m exhausted, it has been actually troublesome. I hoped to be house at 5pm final evening for a roast dinner!’

She mentioned she remains to be presently ready in Paris for a return flight to the UK, anticipated to depart this afternoon.

Despite the disruption, many discovered the humorous aspect of issues and really quickly lots of of memes in regards to the odd locations of the flights have been circulating on social media. 

The 100mph gales and heavy downpours barrelled down on the nation in a single day, with many flights making an attempt to come back into the nation going through a shaky touchdown.

A flight travelling from Sharm El Sheikh to Glasgow Airport declared an emergency on account of Storm Isha.

A spokesperson for Glasgow Airport mentioned the TUI flight was ‘diverted to Manchester on account of present climate circumstances’.

A British Airways flight on its approach from Ibiza to London City Airport was among the many scores of passenger plane which have been compelled to divert as winds of as much as 90mph hit the UK.

Nervous passengers erupted into applause after their diverted airplane made a shaky touchdown throughout highly effective winds.

A holidaymaker shared a video on X exhibiting the bumpy experience because the airplane got here into land at Gatwick, earlier than the cabin erupted into applause and cheers for the captain, with one grateful passenger heard shouting ‘Go on geezer!’

There was additionally applause for the captain of an Alicante to Edinburgh flight, who managed to land their Jet2 airplane regardless of dramatic crosswinds.

Travel chaos additionally hit Scotland amid ‘twister watch’ warnings and amber climate alerts, with baggage filmed being blown throughout the runway at Edinburgh Airport.

Plenty of different flights have been compelled to divert to different airports on account of Storm Isha winds on Sunday, with a haul of different flights cancelled from UK airports, together with Manchester. 

But some travellers have been livid when Ryanair revealed its in a single day lodging plans for them.

Posting a photograph and video on X, one buyer mentioned: ‘This is your excuse for in a single day lodging when a flight is rerouted. Absolutely disgraceful.’

A big corridor with a metallic roof housed rows of tenting beds with yellow foil blankets for individuals to sleep on.

Meanwhile in Bristol Airport, travellers who have been compelled to sleep on-site have been pictured mendacity subsequent to ground heating vents to remain heat.

Others slept on ready room chairs wrapped in coats and hats.

An Easyjet flight which took off from Edinburgh yesterday afternoon circled Bristol ‘for a while’ earlier than the pilot was compelled to alter route and land in Paris as an alternative.

Tom Shepard, 39, advised BristolReside that he and the opposite passengers needed to wait on the tarmac for 3 hours whereas workers debated whether or not to try to fly again to Bristol to see if the wind had lessened. 

He mentioned: ‘We although the pilot was joking at first. We could not imagine there was no different airport within the UK that we may land at.’

Another flight which was coming from Lanzarote to Dublin was diverted, ending up in Bordeaux, France as an alternative. 

Stranded passengers have been left fuming in Cologne Airport, Germany, when 4 flights to Edinburgh have been diverted as a result of storm.

One individual posted on X that they’d been promised lodge rooms however have been left sleeping on the ground. 

Plenty of Edinburgh-bound flights have been compelled to divert to Germany’s Cologne Bonn Airport – over 550 miles away.

A complete of 10 flights sure for Glasgow Airport diverted to airports together with Glasgow Prestwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and London Stansted on Sunday. 

This morning a uncommon crimson warning got here into impact for Scotland, with alerts that some areas may see wind speeds of 100mph inflicting a ‘hazard to life’.

The Met Office is warning individuals to not go exterior and to shelter in place because the storm brings life-threatening winds, with the potential for flying particles and roofs blown off.

Andy Giles was on account of fly from Newquay, Cornwall, to Faro in Portugal on Sunday afternoon.

But Mr Giles, from Looe, Cornwall, mentioned: ‘The flight was diverted to Stansted due to the climate.

‘We have been advised to leap on a bus to go to Stansted to catch the airplane up.

‘Six-and-half hours later and we arrived at Stansted at 12.15am this morning and we’re nonetheless ready.

‘We’re nonetheless right here. We’ve been right here all evening with no sleep as a result of they mentioned when you fall asleep and miss the e-mail, you miss the flight and you will not get there.

Mr Giles, who’s working in Portugal, mentioned 31 passengers selected to journey to Stansted however some individuals went house relatively than face the lengthy bus journey.

He mentioned they got meals vouchers at Newquay which weren’t redeemable at Stansted.

Joshua Ely, 32, and his mom Michelle Buckby, 49, needed to spend the evening sleeping on metallic chairs with foil blankets after their Ryanair flight from Faro to East Midlands Airport (EMA) was diverted to Tille, France.

Their flight spent half-an-hour hovering over EMA earlier than it was diverted to Tille as a result of it was too harmful to attempt to land. 

The warehouse group chief, from Leicester, advised MailOnline: ‘When we bought to Faro Airport we had a climate alert from Ryanair saying there was dangerous climate at house however we did not count on it to be as dangerous as this.

‘We have been within the air for about 4 hours and once we bought to Tille at 10pm it was a little bit of a shambles. The airport did not have sufficient camp beds, so my mom and I needed to sleep on metallic chairs and it was freezing, so we bought no sleep.

‘The airport was handing out bottles of water however my mom and I needed to share one between two of us.’

Mr Ely and Ms Buckby lastly landed at EMA this morning, roughly 16 hours after they left Faro. 

He mentioned: ‘I want they’d simply left us in Faro so we may spend an additional evening there as a result of now I’ve had no sleep. I’ve needed to pay for an Uber house as a result of my husband could not decide us up on the airport and I’ve needed to take as we speak off work.’

The passengers got free boarding playing cards for the flight, however Mr Ely claims he hasn’t obtained any messages from Ryanair about additional compensation passengers would possibly count on to obtain.

In an announcement, Ryanair mentioned: ‘The mom and son had flown to the Algarve for an extended weekend and the vacation was Mr Ely’s Christmas current to his mom.  He mentioned: ‘Overall, the vacation was beautiful simply did not have a really good finish to it!’

At Leeds Bradford Airport, three departing flights have been cancelled as we speak and a few are delayed by over six hours.

Winds reached 50mph in a single day within the metropolis, however are anticipated to drop to 40mph later as we speak. 

The Met Office has climate warnings in place protecting the whole thing of Britain heading into early Monday morning.

The most critical of those is a uncommon crimson warning for wind, which is in place in northern Scotland between 1am and 5am, as meteorologists predict gusts of 90 to 100mph.

The warning covers Thurso and Wick to the north, Fraserburgh and Peterhead to the east and goes as far west as Cromarty and Nairn.

The Met Office mentioned there winds would convey a ‘danger of injury, disruption and a hazard to life’, with flying particles, massive waves and seaside materials being thrown onto coastal roads, sea fronts and houses.

There might be harm to buildings and houses, with roofs blown off and energy strains introduced down, in addition to energy cuts affecting different providers, equivalent to cell phone protection.

Amber warnings for wind cowl many of the remainder of Britain, except for London and East Anglia, the place a yellow warning is place.