Passengers at Manchester Airport should expect to wait for up to an hour and a half due to staff shortages, bosses have warned. Charlie Cornish, chief executive of Manchester Airports Group, urged departing travellers to arrive three hours before their flight to avoid missing it.
Passengers have faced long delays and chaotic scenes in recent weeks, with queues trailing outside terminals to reach check-in desks and hordes of people waiting to get through security and to pick up luggage. The airport's managing director, Karen Smart, resigned on Tuesday.
After cutting thousands of jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, the aviation industry in general is suffering from difficulties recruiting staff and waiting for security checks to be passed on new employees. There has also been a recent rise in coronavirus-related staff sickness.
