It was a long journey back to Melbourne for a group of Jetstar passengers who were left stranded for 30 hours after their scheduled plane from the Whitsundays was unable to fly due to an engineering fault.
Passengers making the three-hour journey from Queensland spent the night on the airport floor due to a lack of hotel availability in the area.
The Melbourne-bound flight was scheduled to fly out of Proserpine at 11 am on Tuesday but didn’t arrive in Melbourne until late Wednesday afternoon….
