SCOTTISH holidaymakers have ended up over 500 miles from Edinburgh after Storm Isha blew their flight off course.
Ryanair flight 2970 was scheduled to fly from Tenerife to Edinburgh on Sunday night.
However, after making one attempt to land in the capital, the flight diverted to Cologne due to high winds gusting to 74 miles per hour.
Eventually, after almost six hours in the air, the flight landed at Cologne Bonn Airport at 1.20am local time, 543 miles from Edinburgh.
Another Ryanair flight from Seville to Edinburgh was also diverted to Cologne, arriving around an hour later.
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Earlier in the day, a Ryanair flight from Dublin ended up in Cologne, while a flight from Shannon scheduled to arrive close to midnight also ended up in the city.
Edinburgh Airport also saw passengers shocked as winds from the storm sent a lone suitcase blowing across the tarmac, impressing them with its ability to stay upright.
The Ryanair flights were not the only ones to Edinburgh diverted, with eight flights in total given new destinations amid the storm.
One Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Edinburgh was diverted to Amsterdam, while a Ryanair flight from London was sent to Shannon.
Glasgow saw 10 flights directed to new destinations, arriving in Prestwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and London Stansted.
Many flights to points in the UK found themselves flying to international destinations due to Storm Isha.
One flight from Manchester to Dublin ended up in Paris, while another, scheduled to travel from Manchester to Stansted, ended up in Budapest.
Many would-be holidaymakers were not lucky enough to leave the UK, however – passengers on one Manchester to Dublin flight spent over three hours in the air before returning to their starting point.
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