A COUPLE are terrified they will miss their wedding after their flight was cancelled in air traffic chaos.
Adam Ashall-Kelly, 35, and his fiancee Christine Marriott, 36, had their flight from Manchester to Verona scrapped yesterday, just days before they tie the knot near Lake Garda on Saturday.
Adam Ashall-KellyAdam Ashall-Kelly, 35, and his fiancée Christine Marriott, 36, had their flight to Verona cancelled[/caption]
Adam Ashall-KellyThey are now worried they will have to miss their wedding altogether[/caption]
The couple, both originally from Manchester, are due to get married in Malcesine but must register their wedding at a local court before they can be legally wed.
Adam and Christine, along with other family members, have managed to book on to a flight to Milan on Wednesday, reports the BBC.
But they currently have “no idea” whether it will also be cancelled with travel chaos still swirling.
Adam told the BBC: “It’s incredibly stressful. We’ve looked at whether we can get a flight to Paris and then a train, but there’s strikes.
“We’ve looked at driving all the way there and we’re thinking about maybe getting the Eurostar to Brussels and then there’s a 14-hour bus.
“We’re looking at so many options, if someone had a solution and said we had to leave by 16:00 today we’d go.
“Everybody is completely on edge.”
Thousands of holidaymakers were hit by bank holiday travel delays, which started yesterday when a “technical issue” grounded flights heading to and from the UK.
Despite the issue being said to have been fixed by yesterday afternoon, knock-on disruption has massively affected tourists.
Already on Tuesday nearly 300 flights have been cancelled at the UK’s six busiest airports alone.
Adam says that the priority is getting to the wedding but said that he and Christine had already lost a “significant amount of money” on hotels, new flights and taxis.
Manchester Airport has urged passengers to check before they leave for the airport as their flight times may have changed.
In a social media statement the airport said they were “working hard with our airlines and their handling agents to get passengers though the airport as smoothly as possible”.
Dozens more cancellations were announced this morning as airlines struggle to recover from the four-hour failure.
Passengers due to fly to Newcastle were seen bunking down on the floor of Palma airport overnight, with their flight already facing huge delays following severe weather problems.
And some holidaymakers were even sleeping in trolleys, with one passenger even using a towel to make a tent-like canopy between barriers.
Across the country, passengers were pictured sleeping in airports overnight with nowhere to go.
Frustrated tourists also took to social media to plead with airlines for help after being left in limbo.
In the worst single day’s disruption to UK flying since the Icelandic volcano in 2010, an estimated 200,000 passengers woke up today in unfamiliar surroundings.
It comes after reports that a blunder by a French airline may have sparked the air traffic control chaos in the UK.
Downing Street did not rule out the possibility that an inputting error by a French airline could have caused the disruption.
And they warned that airlines have a responsibility to “get customers back to where they should be”, as thousands of holidaymakers remain stranded.
Holidaymakers at Gatwick are stuck waiting for the next update
Thousands of tourists are still at Palma de Mallorca airport
SWNSPassengers have been left in the lurch thanks to the chaos[/caption]