Birmingham Airport is still advising passengers to arrive "in line with your airline's check in time", despite thousands of passengers being stuck in queues this morning. Queues stretches out of the doors of Birmingham Airport as around 7,500 people passed through the terminal during the morning peak.
Flights out of Birmingham were delayed by between a few minutes up to an hour earlier this morning, May 9, as passengers waited in long queues for security. Holidaymakers reported "absolute chaos" as queues for security were seen to snake out of the airport doors and along the length of the building, reports Birmingham Live.
Photos and video footage taken by frustrated passengers on Monday (May 9) show hundreds of travellers lined up to get into the airport, with flights delayed by up to an hour. Travellers said "thousands" of people were stuck in a queue reaching up to "one kilometre" in length at its peak.
