This past Saturday, more than eighty passengers experienced an unprecedented situation at Vigo airport. The complicated weather situation caused hundreds of flights to be delayed throughout the weekend. One of the most affected was a flight to Madrid, which was going to leave on Saturday night from Peinador airport. Those affected had to wait for several hours to be able to board.
But suddenly the company informed them that their flight had been cancelled. The main reason for this situation is that the plane was going to be used by the players and the technical team of Sevilla F.C. And the aircraft in which they were going to travel back to the capital of Seville suffered a breakdown, so the airline decided to give them the plane, leaving almost a hundred people on the ground.
The solution they offered to all those affected was to take a bus trip twice as long. This decision generated a great flood of criticism on social networks from all those affected who did not agree with the resolution. Hours later, the airline issued a statement apologizing for what happened.
This same afternoon, one of the affected Inés Sáinz, Miss Spain 1997, went live on the Sonsoles Onega program, where she wanted to give all the details of the situation. ''Thank God I work from home and I was able to reorganize my schedule and I didn't have transoceanic flights, but we have all kinds of testimonies, like that of a girl who is still trying to reach her final destination,'' she said.
''If you had been there, you would have been amazed, because it wasn't just once, there was a previous one, because they boarded after us and yet in a first boarding they were boarded before. They were waiting on a bus and they disembarked and invited them to have a drink upstairs, while we were there waiting for our plane. It's not that they ignored us once, it's that there were two. The second included robbery,'' declared Sáinz.
Regarding whether the airline staff spoke at any time at the airport, the affected person claimed that only one stewardess was left alone in the face of danger. ''She suddenly found herself managing 80 passengers without knowing if there were flights the next day,'' she claimed. Inés Sáinz also assured that in addition to the compensation they were owed, they were going to file a class action lawsuit. ''The lawsuit is about the fact that someone has decided that there are people who have more rights than us, that their time is worth more than ours and that on top of that they did it in our face,'' she asserted.
