Harry Styles had a surprise for someone very special to him, as he performed the first of two huge homecoming gigs in Manchester, U.K. on Wednesday.
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A family from Bury said they experienced ‘one thing after another’ after facing a 16-hour flight delay as they tried to get home from a 12-day holiday in Turkey.
The family, who asked not to be named, were initially due to fly back to Manchester Airport from Dalaman at midnight on Monday morning (June 6). However, their flight did not take off until 3.20pm the next day.
The family-of-four were initially told their early TUI flight had been delayed until 6.35am. The only discovered the flight had been cancelled altogether when they arrived at the Turkish airport.
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They were then transferred to a hotel where they stayed until lunchtime before returning back to Dalaman Airport for a new flight, which was then delayed by three hours. To add to their frustration, they were told they could not fly back to Manchester and would instead land at Birmingham, before they were changed to a flight arriving at London Gatwick due to a late inbound aircraft.
“First they told us we were going to Birmingham and I was a bit peeved about that because it was far from home but then it got changed to Gatwick,” the dad, who was travelling with his girlfriend, 12-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, told the M.E.N.
“It just made little sense to us because there were other flights going to Manchester. There was just no communication whatsoever to tell us why we were going to London.”
When the family arrived in London at 10pm on Monday night, they were told that TUI had provided a transfer pick-up to take them and the other passengers back to Manchester.
“We were left standing outside the airport as we were told our transfer would be 15 minutes,” the man said.
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Harry Styles had a surprise for someone very special to him, as he performed the first of two huge homecoming gigs in Manchester, U.K. on Wednesday.
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