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RYANAIR HAS DESCRIBED circumstances which caused a flight to be delayed by 50 hours over the weekend as “entirely beyond our control”.
The delay came to attention on social media after a number of tweets from Corinne Redfern, the features and entertainment editor with Look Magazine.
In them she gave an account of a series of delays, difficulties obtaining food vouchers and a reluctance by the airline to provide accommodation for passengers.
Redfern had been due to fly from Lanzarote to London Stansted on Friday afternoon.
Weather conditions caused delays to flights around the Canary Island on Friday and Saturday and affected three routes – one to Birmingham, one to the East Midlands and one to London Stansted.
The delayed flight to Stansted landed at around 15.00pm yesterday afternoon.
Response
Responding to the incident, Ryanair, said:
Affected customers were provided with meal vouchers and hotel accommodation, and were sent regular updates by email and SMS text.
Weather improvements allowed normal flight operations to resume on Sunday when these flights operated. Ryanair sincerely apologised to all customers affected by these weather delays, which were entirely beyond our control.
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Terrible.
Weren’t the Lebanese complaining about “Homeland” and the fact that Beirut, “The Paris Of The Middle East” was being portrayed as a bombed out shell of a city and a dangerous place. Heard this on BBC radio yesterday. Something to that effect anyway.
There are still quite a few bomb and bullet scarred buildings left in Beirut. There’s also a huge amount of sparkly and sterile norman-forsterized development in the downtown area. It’s an interesting place.
Very sad development.
Who are these two people? I see that they have twitter accounts. Are they over there tweeting about this? Are they journalists? Are they credible witnesses?
I believe Declan they have taken residence in the spare bedroom of the two bed terrace in Coventry already occupied by the the SOHR (Syrian Observatory Human Rights). All mod cons, bills included, close to all amenities….it was a no brainer…
Toorkeel, I gave you a green thumb for your comment. :)
Spent time there on business last year. Beautiful city and people. Such a shame to see this type of thing again. Horrible no matter where it’s happening.
Jasus I didn’t think there was anything left to blow up :)
Darren, what you don’t know would fill a large encyclopedia.
It might have also had the Phalange as a target as these Christian dislike Assad deeply, and not just the victim. I think all Levantine Christians are seeing that they have no friends there only people who use them, or they should be.
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