Holidaymakers have faced huge queues at Manchester Airport again this morning as the Jubilee Bank Holiday begins. Pictures shared on social media by frustrated passengers show queues stretching back to the car park at Terminal 3.
Another passenger posted an image of a lengthy security queue, which he claimed he had waited in for an hour and 40 minutes. Joanne Doyle also reported long delays at the airport this morning.
Shortly after 7am, she tweeted: "An hour and a half to get through security at @manairport this morning with the boys this morning. What a joke.
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"Queue literally wrapped all the way around T2. Multiple security lanes closed in the morning rush. Do better."
Liverpool DJ duo Camelphat were also caught up in the disruption, describing the queues as the "biggest they've ever seen".
Some passengers said they feared they may miss their flights due to the size of the queues. Deaglan Mcardle tweeted: "A lot of people about to miss 7.05 flights. Been here since 4am. According to @easyJet gate has now closed. Absolutely fuming. Its disgusting."
More than 330,000 passengers are expected to fly through the airport across the four-day Jubilee weekend. It comes amid a chaotic week of holiday cancellations, mammoth flight delays and missing luggage.
Reports over the last few days include queues which extend into car parks, missing baggage spotted from 1,300 miles away, police rescues after flights failed to take off and even food shortages for those passengers actually able to board their flights. More than 30,000 TUI customers have received messages cancelling their trips, while easyJet and Jet2.com passengers have also been affected.
TUI said they have taken the 'drastic step' to cancel six flights a day, or 43 a week, from May 31 until June 30, from Manchester Airport in a bid to help resolve the ‘issues’ which have caused flight delays, cancellations and baggage problems in recent days. On Saturday, police were drafted in to tell ‘hundreds’ of people waiting at the boarding gate, following an eight-hour delay, that their flight to Kos in Greece had been cancelled.
TUI said in an earlier 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’.
Manchester Airport has blamed staff shortages in both the TUI and Swissport operations, a problem which they say is blighting the travel industry more widely. Just last month, the airport issued a candid apology over its staffing crisis.
