Aircraft brokers forced to pay up after Island Games chaos
AN aircraft broker firm has been ordered to pay almost £56,000 after a mix-up which left Western Isles competitors at last year's World Island Games in Rhodes without a plane to return home.
A total of 189 passengers from the Western Isles and Shetland were forced to wait hours in Greece, as travel firm Stewart Travel frantically tried to source a plane for the journey back to Scotland.
At a hearing in the Court of Sesssion this week, Stewart Travel successfully raised an action against aircraft brokers Pure Ltd., of Surrey, who were forced to pay back £55,893.
Because Pure Ltd. had not sourced an aircraft for the return leg, islanders missed connections home when they eventually landed in Inverness, late on Saturday evening.
Stewart Travel had to pick up the tab for overnight accommodation in the city, as well as chartering flights home the next day.
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Last Updated:
27 March 2008 2:30 PM
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