By Noor Nanji Business pressreporter, BBC News Image source, Mark Gittins Image caption, The Gittins, from Berkshire, were looking forward to their journey to Madeira It needto haveactually taken simply under 4 hours for Mark and Caroline Gittins to fly from Gatwick Airport to Madeira to commemorate his 60th birthday. But rather, the couple invested 15 hours attempting to reach the Portuguese island, just to end up back where they began. Because of strong winds, their EasyJet flight on Monday was diverted to Tenerife. After 2 hours there, guests were flown back to Gatwick. EasyJet apologised however stated the security of consumers and team is its toppriority. Mr Gittins, who lives in Finchampstead in Berkshire, informed the BBC the entire experience hadactually been “hard to think”. “To invest 15 hours takingatrip, when the location is really your own house, that’s absolutely surreal and we’re in shock,” he stated. “If somebody had stated that was going to be the result, we neverever would’ve thought it.” ‘Completely deserted’ The Gittins showedup at Gatwick at 3: 40am on Monday earlymorning to check in. Their flight was postponed by about an hour, however priorto long they were on their method. Early into the flight, guests were informed there were strong winds over Madeira, however the captain stated he was confident they would decrease. But a coupleof hours lateron, it was revealed that the airplane was being diverted to Tenerife duetothefactthat of the weathercondition conditions. “We weren’t too worried, we were informed this is not enormously uncommon, and
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