{"id":54198,"date":"2025-04-27T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54198\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:38:18","slug":"jet2-flight-from-spain-to-uk-diverted-after-passengers-cause-mid-air-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54198\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet2 flight from Spain to UK diverted after passengers cause mid-air chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/jet2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jet2;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jet2<\/a> flight from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/alicante\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alicante;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alicante<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/manchester-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Manchester Airport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Manchester Airport<\/a> was diverted mid-air after disruptive passengers forced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/pilots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pilots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pilots<\/a> to land in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Flight LS881 was halfway through its journey on Friday when the crew was suddenly forced to divert and land so police could intervene.<\/p>\n<p>A Jet2 spokesperson said: &#8220;Flight LS881 diverted to Barcelona so that police could offload some disruptive passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aircraft continued to its destination after a delay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a family-friendly airline, we take a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the flight eventually reached Manchester Airport around three hours later than scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after another Jet2 flight was forced to make an emergency landing following the death of a holidaymaker onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Flight LS676, travelling from Tenerife to the UK on Friday evening, had to divert to the Spanish mainland after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/passenger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:passenger;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">passenger<\/a> suffered a fatal medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The crew alerted air traffic control that a man onboard was in critical condition and needed urgent assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The plane made an emergency landing at Santiago-Rosal\u00eda de Castro Airport, where emergency services were waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite immediate medical intervention, the man was sadly pronounced dead upon arrival on the runway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jet2 flight from Alicante to Manchester Airport was diverted mid-air after disruptive passengers forced pilots to land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[199,28830,2000,299,3088,2314,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-54198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-disruptive-passengers","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-jet2","13":"tag-manchester-airport","14":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114408790661514176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}