Emergency services attended the scene after a passenger plane came off the runway at Leeds Bradford Airport while landing in windy conditions during Storm Babet
Phil Casey, golf correspondent at PA Media, and his partner Ann Meredith, 51, were due to fly from Larnaca International Airport to Leeds at 11.20pm local time on Friday. Having cleared security, the couple’s Jet2 flight was delayed and diverted to Manchester Airport, as Storm Babet caused chaos in the UK.
Their flight finally departed at 3.20am local time and arrived in Manchester at about 7am on Saturday, Mr Casey said.Mr Casey, 49, of Leeds, said: “Obviously it’s intensely frustrating but at the same time you realise it’s out of the control of the airlines, so we had a certain amount of sympathy.