Families miss their flight to Spain and endure 12 hours of travel hell after staff let them board the wrong plane...to LATVIA

 Two families were left to camp out at Birmingham Airport for 10 hours after bungling Ryanair .staff let them board the wrong plane... to Latvia.
Stephen Pritchard, 37, and son Jake Kelly, 14, and Jo Housley and her three young children thought they were on a flight to Almeria, Spain, after being ushered through departures from East Midlands Airport at 6.30am yesterday.
Instead the two families - who did not know each other - discovered they were on a plane taking them 1,850 miles away from their chosen destination to Latvia just minutes before it was due to take off.
By the time the mistake had been discovered they had missed their flight to Spain and were told to catch a taxi to Birmingham Airport for the next available flight, a full 11 hours later.
Outraged Mr Pritchard, said
 'I couldn’t believe it. Our boarding passes were checked three times, at the gate and the concourse and on the plane, where we were even led to our seats.' he added
'This was a massive security risk, I could have been a terrorist or anything. This comes at a time when they are supposed to be tightening security. It’s unbelievable.'