Tourists stranded by the storm in Mallorca have no flights and no accommodation
The storm that has passed through the Balearic Islands in the last few days has left hundreds of tourists stranded on the islands, but Mallorca has had the worst of it.
To all the travellers whose return flights were cancelled, we must add the 320 cruise passengers who disembarked from the Britannia cruise ship, which collided with an oil tanker in the port of Palma, who are finding it impossible to find anywhere to stay as everywhere is full, as is usual at this time of year.
For this reason, many of them are being redirected to other airports in Spain, such as Barcelona, so they can get home from there. In the case of Brits, there are no flights to the UK from Mallorca available until Saturday.
Some airlines are trying to reschedule operations to bring them forward to tomorrow (Thursday), but it is not always possible as their planes are out of sync with schedules and are located in the wrong places.
However, it seems that the tourists who have had the easiest time returning home have been those from the TUI. "We have managed it well", said Ian Livesey, director of TUI Musement for the Balearic Islands, who explained that, by having their airline, they have been able to manage 8,000 arrivals and 8,000 departures from the island thanks to extra night flights.
The cruise passengers in Alcúdia:
According to Diario de Mallorca, the more than 300 passengers who disembarked from the P&O Cruises Britannia have been transferred and accommodated in Alcúdia.
These passengers volunteered to leave the ship as the capacity had to be reduced because lifeboats and emergency rafts were damaged in the incident so that the boat could continue its journey.
However, since disembarking, they have discovered there are no flights available to get home, so P&O is trying to charter a plane for them as most are from the UK.
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