Complete farce from Faro to Southend last Thurs/Fri. Ok the strike made the inbound flight into Faro delayed and the captain ( who was great BTW) came and spoke to us all who were being held in the pen at the gate saying that the crew were runiing out of hours so flight being nightstopped Thankffully we were given name of a hotel and told to make our way there ( although it turns out some people had to sleep in airport as didnt have money for taxis fares) Next morning got told via app we would have a flight at 4pm ( different flight number) and the hotel put up a sign saying we would be collected at 1.15pm for it. All good you would think except about midday came a notice on app saying flight would be delayed until 8.55pm. This was still due to crew rest hours. From information received the crew were not sent to hotel until 5.30am despite landing at 11pm hence they were not leaving the hotel until 6pm. So what was the point of taking people to airport 7 hours beforehand- it wouldve been known that no way flight was leaving anywhere near 4. ? So we left about 9pm ( think us and one other flight were the only ones delayed from out sectionn) Tried to claim compenstation for this 2nd flight ( not the first one that was affected) to get cut and paste replies about strike action on the first flight. Is this correct? If the crew had been taken for rest earlier then the flight couldve left on time- thats a cock up not directly related to strike