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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Brett Gibbons & Liv Clarke

EasyJet passengers urged to seek compensation after IT failure sees 200 flights cancelled

Customers whose easyJet flights were cancelled due to an IT failure are being urged to seek compensation. Nine flights were cancelled from Manchester Airport, while more than 200 were disrupted across the UK on Thursday.

The budget airline has apologised to the thousands of passengers impacted by the issue and has confirmed that engineers fixed the problem. Some holidaymakers were stranded abroad and complained about the lack of notice given about the disruption.

Other passengers were only told that their flight was cancelled just 10 minutes before they were due to board, one woman claimed. In a statement the airline said: “easyJet can confirm that the earlier IT systems issues have now been rectified.

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