‘This hassle kills the holiday mood’

PASSENGERS at Dublin airport suffered long delays yesterday after a deadlock between aviation chiefs and air traffic controllers grounded flights for four hours.

Holiday and business travellers were furious at the stoppage with many forced to delay their travel plans by a day while others were fearful of missing connecting flights.

One Cork family with a toddler left their home at 7am and by last night were looking at a nine-hour delay at Dublin airport before being able to fly on to Johannesburg, South Africa on a 12-hour flight.