Mum's 'nightmare' trip home after being stranded in Malaga for 46 hours... then being unable to feed her baby at Manchester Airport

The mother of a 13-month-old baby said she was left with her daughter ‘screaming and crying’ for food after being ‘abandoned’ in Malaga after their TUI flight back to Manchester was delayed by 46 hours.

Debbie Holden travelled to Malaga with her daughter Kendal on May 18 and was due to fly back to Manchester Airport on Wednesday morning (May 25). Debbie said their trip had been ‘perfect’, until the moment they were dropped off at Malaga Airport.

Having arrived at 7.30am for their 1pm flight, they were later informed that their TUI flight had been cancelled altogether. They were taken to a replacement hotel, but Debbie said they were given ‘no indication’ of when their flight would be.

“We were initially told that our flight was late landing in Manchester so it would be late for us, then it was changed to a technical fault before it was cancelled due to an operational issue,” Debbie, from Doncaster, told the M.E.N. "There was not one person to speak to at the airport who knew anything about what was going on. Then we got told we were going to be taken to a replacement hotel in Malaga while they worked it out.

“They literally abandoned us at that hotel - there’s no other way to put it. We were dropped off by the coach and just left in the boiling hot sun to queue up. I had to beg for them to let me inside so my daughter didn’t burn because we had no sun cream or anything on us.”

Debbie said while staying at the hotel, there was a period of time when she received no communication from TUI regarding their flights back to the UK. She said they had gone from staying at an all-inclusive resort to now having to pay for drinks at the hotel alongside meals. She added that this was later changed to include one drink with meals.