Ryanair passengers stranded on aircraft for six hours

Passengers eventually arrived in Madrid a day late

(Simon Calder)

Almost 190 Ryanair passengers were left stranded on the tarmac in Prague with no food or water, due to bad weather.

Flight FR2767 from Prague to Madrid was grounded on the morning of 3 February with 189 passengers onboard, reports The Sun.

A snowstorm in Prague was causing delays, with Prague Airport warning that “some flights will be affected by bad weather conditions”.

Passengers onboard the aircraft were kept on the tarmac for around six hours, local media reported.

One passenger wrote on Twitter that they had been “kidnapped” onboard for almost seven hours.

According to local media, the passengers spent the night at an airport hotel and were due to depart early the next morning. But one passenger tweeted a video of the plane still on the tarmac at 10.44am.

Another tweeted a photo of staff clearing the snow from the plane’s engine.

A statement from Ryanair said: “Snow at Prague airport and slow airport de-icing services caused a number of delays on Sunday (3 Feb) including this flight to Madrid.

“Crew opened the bars onboard and served refreshments, but the flight was regrettably cancelled, as the crew went out of hours.

All customers were provided with hotel accommodation and boarded a replacement flight, which departed to Madrid the following day. We sincerely apologised to all affected customers.”

The affected passengers finally touched down in Madrid more than 24 hours after they were due to arrive.

This morning, Ryanair announced that one in 10 flights was delayed in January, a slight dip from January 2018.