SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019Why 135 easyJet passengers
were stranded for 3 days
Unimpressed: the passengers who waited, and waited, this week (Dawn Parkin)
SIMON CALDER
TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT
Organised chaos: that seems about the right term for the state of flight operations over Europe, on what
may be the busiest weekend in the busiest summer ever.
The captain of my Thomas Cook Airlines flight from Gatwick to Kavala in northern Greece warned it would
be slow going. Yet we left only mildly late on Friday morning and threaded through crowded skies over
France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the territorial jigsaw formerly known as Yugoslavia to circle in
over the Mediterranean and land more or less on time.
If your flight this month is no more than an hour or two late, I suggest you count it as a success.
Everything in aviation looks stretched to the limit this summer, as 135 easyJet passengers hoping to fly from