A pair's first vacation resulted in catastrophe after they missed their easyJet flight again to the UK - regardless of arriving on the airport three hours early. Chloe Lightfoot and Chelsea Robinson, each 23, had been left stranded at Amsterdam Airport after getting caught in a 3 hour queue for safety as a result of staffing shortages.
The couple say that they had taken the airline's recommendation and arrived hours earlier than their 2pm flight again to Manchester on Monday, September 26. Nonetheless, understaffing meant they by no means made it by means of safety in time, leaving them to look at on in horror because the airplane took off with out them.
The pair then needed to pay roughly £350 for another flight to Edinburgh the next day and a resort room in Amsterdam for the night time. EasyJet stated they had been conscious of great delays at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and have since reimbursed Chloe and Chelsea for his or her flight house and the resort.
Talking on the nightmare expertise, Chloe instructed Manchester Night Information : “Once we arrived we had been saying ‘these traces are taking some time’. We noticed different individuals saying their gates had been about to shut and safety managed to get them by means of. So we requested the safety they usually stated they couldn’t assist us.
“By the point we received to the gate we may see the airplane flying away. It was actually so unhappy. We simply type of stood there staring in shock till a person requested us if we had been from Manchester and stated we simply missed our airplane.
“We had been in touch with easyJet however we had been going round in circles. We simply didn’t actually know what to do as a result of there was no assist from the desks or anybody else.
“The woman on the desk stated they beneficial individuals come there 4 hours earlier than as a result of they had been actually understaffed. The easyJet app stated come two hours early, however we got here three hours early and we nonetheless missed our airplane. I really feel just like the app ought to understand how busy airports are.”
A spokesperson for easyJet stated: “We're conscious of longer than traditional safety queues at Amsterdam airport yesterday, attributable to a scarcity of airport employees and whereas this was outdoors of our management we did all potential to help any clients who missed their flight on account of these queues, providing free flight transfers and resort lodging the place required and so we're refunding Ms Lightfoot and Ms Robinson for his or her new flight and reimbursing them for his or her resort bills.”
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol have been approached for remark.
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