Travel question: My booked trip to Spain has no return flight, what should I do?

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Getting back from Costa Blanca at the end-of-season can be a tricky ordeal

Q In January I booked flights from Doncaster to Alicante to take the family to Calpe on Spain’s Costa Blanca, travelling out on Saturday 26 October with a planned return on 2 November. I wrongly assumed that there would be a return flight, but it now appears there will not be. I am at a loss to know what to do now. I could book with another airline to get back home, I suppose, or cancel the whole holiday – which I don't really want to do. What should I do?

Stuart B

A Regrettably you have been caught in the end-of-season disarray when, all of a sudden in late October, airlines change to winter schedules – which means far fewer flights to the Mediterranean, especially from smaller airports such as Doncaster-Sheffield.