A British Ryanair customer has posted a Facebook rant outlining how he and his new wife missed their flight from Stansted to Slovakia, where his wife’s family had gathered for a wedding reception.

When Michael O’Leary heralded a new era for Ryanair last September, in which the airline would “not piss people off unnecessarily”, he might have had in mind the likes of James Lockley.

An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet, triggering Friday’s hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, police said.

A drunk male passenger triggered a hijacking scare yesterday when he tried to break into the cockpit of a Virgin Australia jet flying from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali.