A plane bound for Manchester instead landed in London this weekend leaving some passengers with taxi bills of more than £800 to get back up to the North West.
The TUI flight from Antalya was already delayed three hours before landing at Gatwick in the early hours of Saturday (June 25) morning.
Cameron Barlow was travelling back to the UK after a trip with his girlfriend and 6-year-old son and was already lacking sleep after their flight eventually left at 3.22am.
This was then followed by 'rumours' amongst the passengers that the plane was going to land in Birmingham, and not Manchester, where everyone intended to go.
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