{"id":75689,"date":"2025-05-05T05:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75689\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T05:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:46:14","slug":"edinburgh-easyjet-flight-diverted-to-european-city-after-passenger-welfare-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75689\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh easyJet flight diverted to European city after &#8216;passenger welfare issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Edinburgh flight bound for Cyprus was diverted to a European city due to a &#8216;passenger welfare issue&#8217; on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The easyJet flight EZY3317 left the Scottish capital just after 1pm on May 3 and was set to land in Paphos just before 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>However due to the incident the passengers were diverted to Pristina in Kosovo and arrived at their final destination around 9.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/live-edinburgh-scheme-rats-join-050000860.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;We live on an Edinburgh scheme of rats - they join us on the school run it&#039;s grim&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;We live on an Edinburgh scheme of rats &#8211; they join us on the school run it&#8217;s grim&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/edinburgh-football-crowd-erupt-applause-141610324.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh football crowd erupt into applause in fitting tribute for loving dad;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh football crowd erupt into applause in fitting tribute for loving dad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a live update on easyJet&#8217;s website, the airline apologised for the diversion and said the reasoning is &#8216;considered to be an extraordinary circumstance&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released at the time reads: &#8220;We\u2019re very sorry that your flight has now been diverted. This is due to a passenger welfare issue.<\/p>\n<p><b>Join<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b>Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b><\/a><b>and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The disruption to your flight is outside of our control and is considered to be an extraordinary circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens now: We plan to refuel and continue your flight as soon as possible. Your crew will keep you up to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An easyJet spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm that flight EZY3317 from Edinburgh to Paphos on 3 May was required to divert to Pristina due to a passenger onboard requiring urgent medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passenger was met in Pristina by medical services and the flight continued on to Paphos last evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew is always easyJet\u2019s highest priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Edinburgh flight bound for Cyprus was diverted to a European city due to a &#8216;passenger welfare issue&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,37350,37351,712,16,15,37352],"class_list":{"0":"post-75689","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-paphos","12":"tag-pristina","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-welfare-issue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114453648777932755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75689","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=75689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}