Families on joint holiday to France left £3,000 out of pocket after flight cancelled due to Air Traffic Control 'failure'
Two families from Great Barr who were stuck after a joint holiday to France due to the Air Traffic Control "failure" have been left more than £3,000 out of pocket after their flights were cancelled.
The Wilby and Griffiths families were supposed to catch a Ryanair flight from Carcassonne to Stansted on Monday having checked in their luggage and gone through security.
At around 2.15pm, the families found out that their flight, which goes directly between Stansted and Carcassonne, was cancelled.
Mum Victoria Wilby said the two families managed to get into a hire car within two hours after waiting for their luggage.
Victoria, 47, said: "The adults got on phones to work out alternatives, we checked out several French airports and considered a ferry, but the trains would have taken too long to get to Calais or Caen."
What followed was a six-and-a-half hour drive from Carcassonne to Orleans, an overnight stop at a hotel, and a two-and-a-half hour drive to Paris the next morning, where they believed there would be more options for them to get home.
