Football boys became coastal groups in Barcelona
About a hundred Icelanders, including ninety boys, became coastal groups in Barcelona last night where their Play flights were reversed due to failure. They slept on the airport floor tonight, but it is unclear when the group will be home.
Half the group has resorted to the micro -councils flying to Poland and then home. The rest hopes to get home tonight, assuming that it will be possible to repair the aircraft, but a purse with passports was kidnapped by them tonight. Play says a spare part is on the way to repair the machine.
« We got to be robbed here, » says Lára. « Just some thieves came in here and robbed a purse with passports. »
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Several football teams IA and Grindavík were on their way home from a practice trip in Salou yesterday, while the Skagmen won the Costa Daurada tournament in Salou in northeastern Spain.
But that victory did not last long. When the boys were launched last night, a pilot announced a failure in the machine, turned it around and then landed in Barcelona.
« We are really just coastal groups here, » says Lára Björk Gísladóttir, one of the Skagans’ tour guides on the trip, in a conversation with mbl.is. The group has been praised for accommodation but nothing has happened. The travelers each received twelve euros allocated for food, but otherwise they had to save themselves.
The boys slept on the marble floor.
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Sleep at the terminal and passports kidnapped
Lára says that 75 people are on the road on behalf of IA, of which there are over sixth dozen boys, and about 25 boys are there by Grindavík.
And it is easier said than to find hotel accommodation for a hundred people, let alone in the middle of the Easter festival. The group slept on the floor at the terminal.
« So we get to the terminal, » says Lára, « where everyone is just about everything. »
In fact, the group received a new scheduled flight time, at. 10.55 today. « But then it was just » Cancellated « , » adds Lára.
The boys slept on the floor.
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The boys then lay on the hard marble floor all night and those who did not have a pillow rested their head on their sweaters or bags.
« We got to be robbed here, » says Lára. « Just some thieves came in here and robbed a purse with passports. »
The Consulate of Icelanders in Barcelona, on the other hand, attended the terminal to assist.
Hopefully home before Easter Day
Now it has been distributed from the group, where half of them are on their way to Poland and from there to Iceland.
Birgir Olgeirsson, a public relations specialist at Play, says that spare parts are on its way to repairing the machine.
Freydís Bjarnadóttir, another tour guide on behalf of IA, tells mbl.is that the group has received information that the Play aircraft will return tonight.
Then the group found themselves a hotel to stay on until then, as the project became easier as the group had become almost half less.
So you probably get home before Easter Day?
« Ugh, » replies Freydís. « We’re just in expectation. Wednesday at the latest. All for that’s just a plus. »
Birgir at Play says passengers will get the next information at 13.
« We are trying like we can get information to passengers, » he says, but something has been compared to complaints about the airline’s lack of communication. Birgir points out that when trips are booked through a travel agency, all notifications are received through the travel agency.
