
An Ottawa female travelling to Stockholm with her spouse and children has been stranded in London, U.K. for several days, caught up in the significant struggles plaguing the airline marketplace.

Monika Knowles and her relatives ended up supposed to get there in Stockholm early Wednesday early morning to check out her sister. Instead, she will not arrive right up until Sunday at midday.

“It’s a series of unlucky occasions,” Knowles informed CTV News from her lodge area in London.

Knowles, her husband, their son and nieces remaining Ottawa on Tuesday. They had been meant to fly from Toronto to Stockholm, but that flight was cancelled for the reason that Scandinavian Airlines pilots are on strike.

They had been booked on an Air Canada flight connecting through London. But that flight remaining extra than 3 hours late, so they skipped their link.

When they arrived in London, Heathrow Airport had instituted a cap of 100,000 departing passengers a working day.

As a consequence, the party was break up up into two groups of 3. Knowles’s partner and two of the little ones are flying to Stockholm on Friday, arriving at midnight. But Knowles and the other two young ones are traveling on Sunday.

“There’s been tears, I’m not going to lie,” Knowles mentioned. “More from disappointment. The good news is, we’re in London, we can get all-around, we can do a thing. But it certainly cuts our complete journey small.”

The point of the excursion, which experienced been planned considering the fact that 2020, was to take a look at her sister and spend some time in Sweden.

Knowles said the airline has been executing anything they can to help obtain answers. She was even looking at having the 26-hour coach ride to Stockholm, but identified it wouldn’t get them there a lot quicker.

The household has been having the likelihood to tour London and see the sights.

“You kind of just have to go with the stream and make the finest out of the entire predicament,” she mentioned.
