Hundreds of British holidaymakers remained stranded in the French Alps on Monday despite roads reopening after freak snowfalls which trapped 15,000 and caused at least one death, reports The Daily Mail.
Furious customers turned their ire on their British travel firms after chaotic scenes at Chambery Airport, where up to 2,000 scrambled over the weekend for cancelled flights and cash tickets.
Complaints were aimed at two Surrey-based tour operators - Inghams and Crystal Ski Holidays - as customers claimed reps had left them in limbo for hours even after the poor weather ended.
Crystal Ski said 83 British customers were still stranded this morning, down from more than 1,000 at the height of the bad weather, and would fly home today.
British operators Inghams, Ski Total and Esprit Ski laid on three special flights today devoted to taking their remaining customers home.
Other private holidaymakers had to rebook their own flights, and hundreds more Britons were trapped as they arrived in the Alps due to a shortage of coaches.
IT worker Anthony Dodd, 50, from Nottingham, spent Christmas in Val d'Isère with his wife Gillian and 16-year-old son Jake on an Inghams tour.
He was put on a coach at his resort at 6.30am yesterday but got caught up in delays on the way to Chambery airport.
When he finally got there he spent eight hours trying to get a flight back to Britain, before giving up at midnight and going to a hotel.