A Brit stranded in Turkey after her Thomas Cook flight was cancelled has been forced to sleep on the ground outside the airport with her suitcase as a pillow.
Beka Whitelaw is one of thousands of Thomas Cook passengers scrambling to get home amid the news to avoid its collapse.
Some 300 of those were supposed to return from Antalya, Turkey, to Glasgow last night.
But Thomas Cook told them "an engine fault" would prevent the aircraft from flying, according to Glasgow Live .
Beka says children, pensioners and disabled passengers were "dumped" off the plane and "kicked out" off the airport by staff.
"Around 300 passengers dumped at a gate after being offloaded from the aircraft due to engine fault," she said.
"Sleeping on the street outside Antalya Airport with no confirmation of when our flight home is. Using a suitcase for a pillow isn't fun.
"The lack of communication by Thomas Cook is unbelievable. The airport staff here are even worse.
"Children, elderly and disabled all stranded. No hotels."
Beka, of Glasgow, claimed she was finally given accommodation after waiting for 12 hours.
The tourist added: "The last of us were accommodated in hotels today but for the last of us it was a full 12 hours from when we should have departed by the time we had somewhere to stay.
"We were told a part for plane is being flown out this evening. It will be fitted and tested and hopefully for to fly tomorrow although no certainties."
Thomas Cook this week approached the UK government for a bailout in a potential lifeline for worried holidaymakers.
Lenders threatened to pull out of a proposed rescue deal, putting the 178-year-old company at risk of collapse.
