More delays for Seguro passengers at Prestwick Airport
06.08.07
Hundreds of holidaymakers were stranded in Europe and at Prestwick Airport over the weekend after holiday company Seguro's only plane was grounded for the second time in two weeks, the Herald newspaper reports. As previously reported the plane suffered a similar problem last month, stranding over 1000 passengers for up to 3 days, with 300 passengers having their holiday's cancelled 51 hours after they were due to take off.
Holidaymakers travelling to and from Prestwick Airport have been enduring more delays this weekend after the plane developed technical problems on Saturday evening. The newspaper reports that Seguro Holidays passengers are facing huge delays again, as engineers try to fix a technical problem with the plane's navigational system.
Around 110 passengers due to travel to Las Palmas in Gran Canaria at 18:00 on Saturday evening spent a second night at airport hotels last night as Seguro tried to find a replacement plane. The Saturday plane was supposed to bring back around 80 passengers from Las Palmas, who have also been stranded abroad for a second night. Two flights due to leave for Alicante in Spain at 09:00 and 16:40 yesterday have also been delayed.
A spokesman for the holiday company said that the grounded plane, which it charters from Sky Wings, was currently being repaired and not had its licence suspended, as had been the case last month. He added that Seguro had chartered a second plane from Sky Wings, and both planes are expected to jet out to Alicante with around 261 delayed passengers last night.
One plane was then due to take the delayed holidaymakers from Prestwick to Las Palmas at 07:00 this morning, 37 hours late, and will bring back the customers who are stranded there. The spokesman said that Seguro's flights to Faro and Palma today would run as usual, and that service should return to normal later in the week.
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