Updated 7.20pm
Some 200 people were left stranded in Malta after their Easyjet flight to Milan was cancelled without explanation last night, Italian media has claimed.
The would-be passengers were left high and dry by the low-cost airline, Corriere Della Sera reported, with an airport announcement simply telling them there would be no alternative offered.
Easyjet representatives told protesting passengers that their flight had never left Milan's Malpensa airport and that there was nothing they could do about it.
"Please make your own travel arrangements," passengers were reportedly told. Many of those stranded were teenagers who had come to Malta to study English.
The travel debacle has also been reported on Italian news site TGCom24.