A mother claims she was stranded at Gatwick Airport with her five-year-old son for 22 hours after being kicked off a plane because it was overcrowded and left to fend for herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlie Day, 33, of Chelmsford, Essex, claims he was marched through security three times as a result of the repeated cancellations, and that at one point passengers were trapped in a waiting room without food, water, or toilet access due to the airport chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had arrived with her husband Lewis and their young son Ernie on Friday morning in preparation for their 2:30pm flight to Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlie noticed her family’s boarding passes were missing a seat number while checking in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite her concerns about the apparent boarding pass change, the well-traveled mother of one proceeded through security, only to discover later that the flight had been overbooked by 34 seats when she queued up to board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family was forced to march through security before rechecking in for a 9:45 p.m. flight later that evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a seven-hour wait for the rescheduled flights, the gate didn’t open until after midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlie, who owns Charlie Day Sales, claims there was no representative from Vueling to calm her fears about the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She then paid \u00a330 for an Uber to take her son to a \u00a3140 Premier Inn room so he could sleep for three hours while Lewis waited an hour for their luggage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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