Yorkshire couple stranded in Peru almost separated due to lack of space on repatriation flight back to UK
Two repatriation flights from Lima landed at Heathrow airport on Monday morning.
However, British citizens on the flight described a "scramble" to the airport and difficulties with passenger lists leaving couples at risk of split up due to lack of space.
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Hide AdDanielle, from Yorkshire, said: "The communication has been pretty bad with the embassy - people started getting emails for their flights yesterday at 5pm, I wasn't on the manifest [list of passengers] but my partner was.
"I was ringing the embassy until one in the morning, didn't get confirmation until three in the morning and had to be at the airport at six and even then I wasn't on it."
Danielle, who has asthma, said the UK Foreign Office had also not taken into account her own personal circumstances but that she had eventually managed to secure a seat.