More than 100 passengers have been at Ibiza airport for 12 hours after their Vueling flight was cancelled

More than a hundred Vueling passengers have been at Ibiza airport for twelve hours waiting to fly to Barcelona after the plane they were due to travel on at 7am this morning was cancelled due to “a technical problem”, according to the company, which has informed the passengers affected.

“We got on the plane and it was emitting a very strange beeping sound, after a while they asked us to get off and informed us that there was a breakdown,” one of the affected passengers told Diario de Ibiza. The one hundred people who remain in es Codolar tthey were scheduled to arrive in Barcelona at 8 a.m. this morning, however, after having been relocated, they are still waiting for information from Vueling.

“At 7 a.m. they told us we would leave at 12:30, then at 2:30 p.m., and so on all the time.”the same passenger, who also adds that when they got off the damaged aircraft, they were put on a bus that was also damaged, without air conditioning, and from which they were finally forced to get off.

This affected person expresses his bewilderment at the lack of information from the airline and because, as he explains, he has several acquaintances who have traveled, during the day today, on flights of the company with several empty seats. Also because of the disorganization that is apparenthe points out, from the little information that reaches them about what happened with their flight.

“They have given us a six-euro ticket to eat, but I am worried about where I am going to spend the night,” laments the passenger, who is not confident that he will be able to reach his destination today, despite having the flight scheduled to leave at 7 p.m. and although the company has assured them that, in case they do not travel, it would cover all accommodation expenses. “We have no guarantee of anything,” he finishes indignantly.

Chaotic Sunday afternoon

From Vueling have assured that the affected travelers will be able to arrive in Barcelona this afternoon on the scheduled route and claim that they have lost “agility” in air management these days due to the situation experienced yesterday at the airport of Ibiza.

The runway was blocked for two hours due to a breakdown in a firefighting plane of the Ibanat (Institut Balear de la Natura) that was stopped in a margin, paralyzing the activity.

In total, 17 flights were diverted throughout yesterday afternoon, four to Valencia, five to Barcelona and eight to Son Sant Joan airport in Mallorca. Also, the incident involved the cancellation of 22 connections, twelve departing flights from the Ibiza terminal and ten arrivals.