MORE chaos has reportedly struck Manchester Airport today with passengers complaining of "two-hour queues" at bag drop. Holidaymakers have continued to feel the effects after a major power cut yesterday which saw all flights from Terminals 1 and 2 cancelled. The outage sparked horrendous delays as furious passengers were unable to check in.
Meanwhile a sea of luggage sat unclaimed as arriving planes sat on the tarmac for hours. Flyers described the hectic scenes as a "minefield" to The Sun as travellers scrambled to save their holidays. Manchester airport is still chaos - been in a queue for 90 minutes just to get into bag drop Hundreds of suitcases were also dumped at abandoned check-in areas as conveyorbelts and computers had stopped working.
By the afternoon, a quarter of all flights never took off as a result of the power cut, according to figures. According to aviation analytics company Cirium, 66 outbound flights, 25 per cent of all departures, and 50 inbound journey, 18 per cent of all arrivals, were axed. Some passengers who had manged to jet off as disaster struck, were still left without their luggage after landing at their destination.
The latest update from Manchester Airport was issued at just after 9pm yesterday. A spokesperson said: "We would like to apologise to all those affected by the disruption in Terminals 1 and 2 today. "Tomorrow's schedule is expected to run as usual with no further disruption so passengers should plan to travel to the airport as normal.
