Overview
- About 100 people were left in Milan after an EasyJet flight to Manchester departed without them following Sunday’s long queues linked to new EU border checks at Linate.
- EasyJet says affected customers can switch to other flights for free, and following Monday’s TV reports it aims to fly them home on Thursday, April 16, for £110 per person.
- The airline is not paying for accommodation, so many travelers face extra hotel nights and added costs while they wait to return.
- BBC Breakfast hosts Sally Nugent and Jon Kay interviewed a father and his son still stuck in Italy, and viewers on X criticized the exchange after the dad was heard prompting the child.
- The programme explained that the EU is rolling out tougher border procedures, which can create multi-hour lines at passport control and increase the risk of missed flights.