The Summers household ought to be watching a Kuta Seaside sundown tonight.
As an alternative, they’re unpacking.
Their school-holiday escape to Bali was cancelled simply hours earlier than take-off.
“It has been a very long time coming — and that is most likely what’s made it much more worse,” Lucy Summers stated.
“They’re destroying individuals’s holidays.
“We work onerous to go on these holidays and it is simply heartless.”
They have been because of depart at 6.50am on Sunday however a textual content message from Jetstar got here via at midnight.
It informed 186 Perth travellers their flight was cancelled because of “operational causes”.
That very same message was despatched to 162 Western Australians in Bali, who had been presupposed to fly dwelling at 10.50am.
It has been greater than three years because the Summers household has left Australian soil.
Lucy and Paul Summers personal a small enterprise, and their kids are upset their hard-working dad and mom now will not get a break.
That is the most recent drama to return from the funds airline.
On Friday, 50 Jetstar passengers sure for Melbourne have been turned away on the gate after a mechanical subject compelled their flight to first be cancelled, then downsized.
With flights and lodging, the household of 4 is now hundreds of {dollars} out of pocket.
They stated they could not rebook.
Jetstar stated it was working onerous to search out various choices for travellers.
However the July faculty holidays is an especially busy interval, and the subsequent out there direct flight from Perth to Bali is not till July 12, the second week of college holidays.
