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Carl Walker, chairman of the Jersey Consumer Council, said he understood more than 1,000 passengers had been displaced and advice for affected customers has been issued.

The home affairs ministry finally allowed the passengers to disembark when an NGO said it would provide them with accommodation.

Yet major airlines have refused to board passengers without Somalia's e-visa approval.

Police were called by passengers and armed officers boarded the train in Huntingdon.

When air-traffic controllers went unpaid and the Federal Aviation Administration slashed flights this month during the government shutdown, planes were grounded, runways became parking lots and passengers traveled straight into limbo.