Shirley Berkley was unsure if she would be able to attend the service at Newton Mearns Shul on Sunday in memory of her husband who was life president.

Glasgow Masorti special guests for this Shabbat, educationalist Bebe Jacobs and cantor Dr Laurance Jacobs were stranded in Calgary, Canada, but tonight’s youth service and tomorrow’s service are going ahead as planned.

A party of seven Glaswegians was due to have flown to Targu Mures in Romania to deliver much-needed supplies to the community there. The visit has been rescheduled for June 3.

Targu Mures trustee David Bishop said: “We couldn’t afford to send people out and not be able to get them back. This is the 10th anniversary of the setting up of the Trust and the community there was particularly looking forward to us coming.”

David’s family was also caught up in the chaos with son Lloyd, a professional photographer in New York, leaving Glasgow for his return home at the end of the week only to be stuck in London. He managed to get one of the first flights home on Wednesday.

Debbie Florsheim flew to Glasgow from New York for a midweek visit to her parents, Zelda and Ronnie Mail.

Her mother had been in hospital and she came over to do some cooking and help out for a few days. Debbie had booked to fly home last Friday, in plenty of time for her son Max’s 13th birthday on Monday.

“I’m really upset to have missed Max’s special birthday. Of course he understands, but it’s still a big disappointment for him.

“At least I’m staying with my parents rather than being stranded somewhere.”

Debbie’s husband Danny, who has been looking after their three children, Max, Lauren, 10 and Nathan, eight, was meant to have flown to his home town, London, on Sunday, but that visit was cancelled.

Fortunately for the Florsheims, Max’s barmitzvah is being held in August in London, although they will be keeping an anxious eye on Iceland until then.

Also caught up in the travel chaos was Debbie’s eldest brother Raymond who, together with his wife Karen and friends Richard and Michelle Pinder, were in Florence, trying to find a way to get back home.

They made their way by train to Paris, from where they were due to fly home yesterday.

For Deirdre and Stanley Bernard, the flight embargo has meant them enjoying the company of children and grandchildren a bit longer.

Daughters Nicole and Roanna were due to have flown back to Sydney last Sunday, with Roanna’s husband Gary Hinksman and children, Callum, Jade and Tara.

Instead, Roanna, Callum and Jade were attending the Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrations in Giffnock on Monday night. They have all been given a new flight date of Monday.

A Liverpool woman who took ill in Portugal at the end of Pesach may not be able to return home until the end of next week.

Raie Hudaly from Calderstones had been spending the festival with her family on the Algarve and was admitted to hospital just before she was due to fly home.

Although she was hoping to be discharged this week, a condition of her insurance is that she is accompanied back to the UK by a British doctor and that she flies on an airline which has the space to provide sufficient room which rules out the low-cost operators, requiring a flight to Heathrow.

At the time of going to press, the earliest Mrs Hudaly can return is next Thursday.

Her daughter Louise Valins who is with her mother in Faro said: “It’s a nightmare, but the people here could not have helped us more.

“The kosher caterer who organised the holiday couldn’t do enough for us and the hospital staff have been unbelievable. I have never seen attention like it in Britain.”