It’s unknown what occurred to the travellers left behind.
Ryanair has reportedly left 89 passengers in Lanzarote (Picture: Getty)
Ryanair has left as much as 89 passengers on the Canary Island of Lanzarote on account of congestion at border management. The corporate reportedly determined to not look ahead to passengers to cross by border management and took their luggage off the plane, one thing that took nearly an hour.
Flight FR4756, which departed at 3.15pm from Lanzarote Airport, arrived at Bristol Airport 52 minutes late. In keeping with the Spanish outlet, La Voz, the issue originated at border management, the place passengers from outdoors the Schengen Space should have their passports stamped. It stated giant queues have been forming at border management on many events, inflicting flight delays and widespread anger.
A Ryanair spokesperson stated: “Attributable to passport management delays at Lanzarote Airport (25 Feb), quite a lot of passengers missed this flight from Lanzarote to Bristol.
“Ought to these passengers have introduced on the boarding gate desk earlier than it closed, they’d have boarded this flight alongside the 90 passengers who did current on the gate on time.”
It has but to be revealed what occurred to the travellers left behind and in the event that they needed to keep in a single day.
This isn’t the primary time that this kind of incident has occurred at Lanzarote Airport. In February 2025, the simultaneous arrival of 17 non-EU flights collapsed the airport as they needed to stamp their passports on arrival.
President of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, José Valle, warned in August 2025 of his concern in regards to the implementation of the brand new European Entry/Exit System (EES), when he predicted that it may trigger “critical collapses” at Lanzarote airport.
The airport has additionally come underneath hearth for lengthy, steady queues on the taxi and bus ranks, with folks ready as much as 2 hours.
The incident has additionally been reported by the English ex-pat newspaper, Canarian Weekly, which claimed this case might be motivated by Ryanair’s frustration with the rise in airport taxes by the Spanish airline authority, Aena.
It reported: “Some business sources counsel the choice could also be linked to Ryanair’s ongoing frustration with Spain over elevated airport costs launched by AENA, although the airline has not formally commented on the incident.”
Ryanair stated it needed to develop in Spain, as the most important airline within the nation, and welcomed the chance to sit down down with Aena for a dialogue.
“However so long as Aena’s monopoly clings to a failed coverage of excessive costs, visitors in Spain’s areas will proceed to bleed to different international locations, depriving residents of the connectivity they should journey for enterprise, go to family and friends, and entry vacationer alternatives from their native airports.”
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