Ryanair passengers furious over grounded flight

AIRPORT police had to control an angry crowd of disappointed holiday-makers when their Ryanair flight from Cork to Alicante in Spain was grounded without warning last evening because of the French air traffic controllers’ strike.

“There are kids crying, there are adults crying and the airport security guards have just escorted one man from the terminal building,” said Dawn Aston.

“They escorted him away because he told the rest of us to ‘stay where you are’, or we would get no satisfaction from the airline.