Ryanair passenger dies at Spanish airport while waiting to board plane home
The incident happened at Reus Airport (file pic)
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A British tourist has died at a Spanish airport while he was waiting to board a Ryanair plane back to the UK.
The man, who was believed to be aged around 60, was pronounced dead after collapsing at Reus Airport near Tarragona.
Emergency services attended the boarding area and attempted to revive the man. Sadly, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police sources told local media it is not currently believed to be criminally-related with an autopsy expected to reveal he died of natural causes.
The incident happened at Reus Airport (file pic)
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The incident happened on Monday night as the unnamed Brit was about to board a Ryanair flight to Leeds Bradford Airport.
Local reports said he was returning to the UK after time at a hospital in Tarragona for treatment for unknown health problems.
It comes after a 61-year-old British holidaymaker died on a plane which was about to leave the same airport last October. He fell ill on a Jet2 plane bound for East Midlands Airport.
The incident led to a long delay, with the aircraft leaving nearly seven hours after its scheduled departure.
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A 67-year-old Thomas Cook customer died after arriving at Reus Airport in September 2019.
The woman was assisted by a German nurse who was on holiday but died at the scene.
Paramedics arrived and made an unsuccessful attempt to save her using a defibrillator when she went into cardiac arrest.
According to local media, she fell ill on her way to the airport and died while waiting to be flown home on a rescue flight organised after Thomas Cook went into administration.
Meanwhile, Ryanair has said airfares will be "materially lower" over the peak summer months than last year, as it reported plummeting quarterly profits.
The Irish budget carrier said on Monday that lower prices over spring pushed profits down 46 per cent to 360 million euros (£303 million) for the three months to June 30.
The average fare fell 15 per cent to 42 euros (£35) year on year, while passenger numbers rose 10% to 55.5 million.
Chief executive Michael O’Leary said: “While (second-quarter) demand is strong, pricing remains softer than we expected, and we now expect (second-quarter) fares to be materially lower than last summer.”