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NEARLY 200 passengers were left stranded for over TEN HOURS at Ibiza Airport – with no beds, barely any food, and not even a bottle of water.
Vueling flight VLG1353, set to whisk travellers to Alicante at 9:55pm on Wednesday, quickly descended into chaos after a technical glitch forced passengers to disembark just before midnight – and then the waiting game began.
The airline promised a new departure early Thursday… but that never happened. Families with infants, elderly people, and even those who needed special assistance were forced to sleep on the terminal floors. Vueling distributed vouchers for fast food and told passengers that they could get water from the airport fountains if they asked.
And forget about hotel rooms – the airline reportedly refused, claiming the delay wasn’t long enough to justify putting people up for the night.
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At dawn, tempers had boiled. This time, the promised early departure had to be pushed back because no crew members showed up. The Airbus A320, finally airborne by 9am – nearly 12 hours late – landed in Alicante shortly after 10am.
The real drama occurred earlier at the Ibiza airport, when angry passengers blocked a gate for another Vueling flight heading to Barcelona.
“Nobody leaves the island until us!”
The Guardia Civil and airport security reacted quickly to the standoff.
Passengers later slammed the airline’s ‘shameful’ handling of the fiasco – saying they were denied complaint forms, given contradictory info, and largely left in the dark, with ground staff scrambling to explain what Vueling couldn’t.
A tired traveller summarized the situation: “We were treated as cattle.” Absolute disgrace.”
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