Holiday operator TUI will cancel nearly 190 flights over the next month due to ‘ongoing disruption’ at Manchester Airport. Decimating plans for thousands of passengers around half-term and the Jubilee, it follows a series of reports from travellers experiencing delays, cancellations and baggage issues as the hub continues to suffer through turbulent times.
The airline will cancel six flights a day, or 43 a week, from May 31 until June 30. All other airports in the UK, they have said, will ‘operate as normal’. The decision comes amid ongoing tales of missing luggage, holidays being cancelled by text and mammoth flight delays. On Saturday, police were drafted in to tell ‘hundreds’ of people waiting at the boarding gate, following an eight-hour wait, that their flight to Kos in Greece had been cancelled.
TUI had said in a statement that the ‘sudden increase’ in people going on holiday combined with ‘various operational and supply chain issues’ had impacted a ‘small number of flights’. Meanwhile, Manchester Airport bosses had vowed to work with airlines and other handling agents experiencing difficulties amid an urgent recruitment drive, to resolve the ongoing issues for passengers. However, TUI have now taken the decision to remove flights from the schedule in a bid to manage the crisis.
