{"id":641672,"date":"2025-12-19T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:00:35","slug":"edinburgh-jet2-flight-to-canary-islands-diverted-due-to-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641672\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Jet2 flight to Canary Islands diverted due to medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Jet2 flight from Edinburgh to Lanzarote was diverted on Thursday due to an onboard medical emergency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flight LS785 departed the Scottish capital at 8.23am before pilots issued an alert regarding a passenger requiring assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The plane was diverted to Manchester Airport and met by medical crews.<\/p>\n<p>Jet2 has confirmed the flight is continuing its journey to Lanzarote.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: \u201cWe can confirm that flight LS785 from Edinburgh to Lanzarote diverted to Manchester earlier today (Thursday, December 18) due to a customer requiring medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flight is continuing its journey to Lanzarote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jet2 flight from Edinburgh to Lanzarote was diverted on Thursday due to an onboard medical emergency. Flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-641672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115744710646577649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641672","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=641672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}