Flight to Treviso delayed by 10 hours

Passengers booked on a Ryanair flight to Treviso woke up in the dead of night early on Wednesday to make sure they made it on time for their 6.50am departure.

Almost 10 hours later, they were still at Malta International Airport, waiting for their flight to leave.“It’s dreadful,” a passenger told Times of Malta. “They could have sent us home and told us to come back in the afternoon. Instead they told us nothing.”Flight plans seemed to have been derailed shortly before take-off, the passenger wrote on Facebook.

Passengers were herded out of the MIA departures terminal in preparation for boarding.“We could see the plane. Little puffs of black smoke kept coming out of it,” he recalled. A short while later, an airline representative told passengers to return inside – where they remained all day.

At the time of writing, the flight was scheduled to depart at 5.10pm. Times of Malta sought comment from Ryanair. The airline had yet to reply at the time of writing.

While many were sympathetic to the passenger's complaints about a lack of communication, others too exception to his post. "Be thankful because in Malta we have incredible and very professional engineers and I'm sure...