Here are your Manchester United evening headlines for Saturday, July 2.
14.06.2022 - 01:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A family with a young child had to shell out £1720 on new flight tickets to Manchester after their Easy Jet flight home from their package holiday in Egypt was cancelled leaving them waiting around for over eight hours.
Askir Ali, 36, wife Sabrina Begum, 30, and their six-year-old child Sophia, six, who suffers from life threatening allergies, were left at Hurghada Airport for over eight hours with no food. After arriving at the airport at 5.30pm for their 10.05pm flight they finally were allowed through to departure gates at 12.45am after purchasing other tickets and flew out at 1.45am.
Mr Askir, from Hyde, says they arrived at Hurghada airport only to see their flight was cancelled with no explanation or alternative. He says he attempted to get through to Easy Jet on his mobile phone but kept going round in circles unable to speak to the relevant department and maxing out his phone bill to £250 until his phone was blocked.
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"I made about 20 calls," he says. "I was passed from pillar to post. I spoke to about four people."
After hours of waiting and with a hungry, crying child and no prospect of another flight being offered he paid £1720 for new flight tickets back to Manchester. The flight was not direct and the family had to change at Istanbul and wait for a four hour lay over.
Askir says: "At Istanbul airport I got free WIFI for thirty minutes and I accessed an email from Easy Jet saying they would put us on a flight from Egypt but asking us to stay there for another two days." As the family were at Istanbul airport by this time, it was too late, but Askir says he and his wife had
Here are your Manchester United evening headlines for Saturday, July 2.
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