Passengers left furious after being stranded at Scots airport following easyJet flight cancellation

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Passengers have been left furious after being stranded at a Scots airport following an easyJet flight cancellation. Travellers had made their way to Edinburgh Airport for their evening flight to Amsterdam on Tuesday, May 31.

The vast majority of them arrived early to ensure they had enough time for bag drop off and security queues, Edinburgh Live reports.

After making it to departures, their flight was delayed by an hour and then a further two with some of them forced to wait on board.Then at 8.30pm, easyJet confirmed that the flight had been cancelled and passengers were told that they had to leave the airport.Speaking to Edinburgh Live about the "shambles," Austin, 27, said there had been no easyJet staff in the airport to direct them on what to do once the flight was cancelled.He said: "I came into the airport and security took ages to get through, then the flight was delayed three hours and then it changed and the board said go on the easyJet app."Went on the app and it said cancelled, but there was no easyJet staff in the airport we just got told to leave and get our bags."We all went down to the baggage hall and there must have been 400 bags just lying there from the cancelled flights.

I travel for work in Amsterdam and travel most weeks, but the next available flight they could put me on was Friday so that has a huge knock on effect."I'm lucky that I have a house here but what if you were here on holiday and there was no staff, you'd have nowhere to go and three days before you could get your next flight."PHD student Joe Nockels, 24, had also been hoping to board the Amsterdam flight to meet his parents there for a holiday that had been delayed twice due to the pandemic.However, with no alternative flight until