![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/family-desperate-to-find-flight-home-as-niece-running-out-of-crucial-medication/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_Air-traffic-control-system-fault.jpg&description=The backlog of demand caused by around 1,500 cancelled UK flights on Monday has meant some are facing up to ten days before they can back to the UK, with dozens of cancellations to UK airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick A young girl was stuck abroad with a dwindling supply of insulin and no way to get any more. The chaos caused by air traffic control issues on Monday is still being felt keenly two days later, particularly by those whose flights were cancelled and are trying to get back to the UK. Many are facing numerous extra days away from home, racking up serious hotel and phone bills they hope to have refunded by their airlines. The backlog of demand caused by around 1,500 cancelled UK flights on Monday has meant some are facing up to ten days before they can back to the UK, meaning they'll miss days of work and the start of the new school year. Such issues are particularly acute for the Acheampong family, eight of whom are currently stuck in Gran Canaria trying to work out how to get home after their easyJet flight was cancelled. One member of their party is quickly running out of crucial medication. Have you been caught up in the chaos? Email webtravel@reachplc.com On Wednesday morning Chanel Acheampong told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "All we're told is to speak to the information desk and they say it's nothing to do with them. We ask where easyJet is and we're told they're never down here, and it's ground workers who have to book passengers in. "My niece is type 1 diabetic, she has an insulin pump and she's literally got minimal insulin left. We told easyJet this on the phone, who told us to go to a shop and buy some - you can't buy insulin over the counter. We need to get home, she needs her medication." Weary travellers continue to trickle through UK airports today having spent the past 48 hours arranging their alternative transport home. Among them are Joy Zhang and her mother Lulu Jin, from Sheffield, who arrived at Leeds Bradford Airport on Wednesday){kind=link}
The backlog of demand caused by around 1,500 cancelled UK flights on Monday has meant some are facing up to ten days before they can back to the UK, with dozens of cancellations to UK airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick
A young girl was stuck abroad with a dwindling supply of insulin and no way to get any more.
The chaos caused by air traffic control issues on Monday is still being felt keenly two days later, particularly by those whose flights were cancelled and are trying to get back to the UK. Many are facing numerous extra days away from home, racking up serious hotel and phone bills they hope to have refunded by their airlines.
The backlog of demand caused by around 1,500 cancelled UK flights on Monday has meant some are facing up to ten days before they can back to the UK, meaning they’ll miss days of work and the start of the new school year.
Such issues are particularly acute for the Acheampong family, eight of whom are currently stuck in Gran Canaria trying to work out how to get home after their easyJet flight was cancelled. One member of their party is quickly running out of crucial medication.