Belgian students removed from Ryanair Canary Islands flight

CANARY ISLANDS/Lanzarote (Agencies) Spanish police were called in to remove over 100 Belgian students from a Ryanair Lanzarote-Belgium flight. A statement by Ryanair says that the university students became disruptive, and refused to comply with crew instructions after a number of their group were required to pay a gate bag fee for outsized luggage. Most of the students are now stranded in Lanzarote because other flights are either full or too expensive, although some of them were able to eventually find alternative flights, but about 70 of are still tranded.. Spanish newspaper La Provincia said airline staff had tried to charge one passenger extra for carry-on baggage and his friends on the plane "mutinied". A spokesman for the Spanish interior ministry said the pilot was preparing for takeoff at Guacimeta airport bound for Charleroi, Belgium, when she radioed for police assistance. The airline statement apologizes to the other 66 passengers for a 3-hour delay.