Dozens of Easyjet passengers left stranded in Milan due to border check queues

Easyjet leaves 100 behind in border check queues32 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMarc Waddington, Angela Ferguson, Kelly ForanNorth WestBBCAbout 100 people are reported to have been left behind by the Milan - Manchester flightAbout 100 people have been left stranded in Milan after a flight to Manchester left without them. They were due to depart on an Easyjet flight on Sunday but faced queues of up to three hours at Milan's Linate airport because of border control checks. Marooned passengers told the BBC people had been vomiting and passing out in the heat and now did not know how they would get home. Easyjet said it was trying to support passengers but that the situation was "outside of our control". One passenger, Kiera, 17, from Oldham, told the BBC she and her boyfriend faced a 20-hour wait in the airport until they could get another flight tomorrow. She said it had cost her mother about £520 for new flights, but that they would be going to Gatwick, not Manchester. She added: "We got here at seven-thirty for our flight at eleven so were super early. "We got to Border Control and it was a massive queue of people. I wasn't feeling great anyway because I think I'd got food poisoning."At about ten-fifty they brought some water over for people, and when we got to the front of the queue someone asked us if we were going to Manchester, and told us our flight had just gone."There were only about 30 people got on the plane, and about 100 people didn't."Kiera said she faced sleeping on the floor of the airport overnightStudent Kiera said when she emailed Easyjet to explain it was now going to cost her family hundreds of pounds to fly her to London and then pay for trains back to Greater Manchester, she was offered £12.25 in compensation. "We won't be able to buy a sandwich at the airport for that, and we're going to be stuck here until we can fly tomorrow," she added.'Blame...