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Brett Gibbons

Passengers face ongoing airport delays amid staff shortages and travel surge - how the big airports are coping

Furious passengers have raged about lengthy queues at some of the UK's busiest airports with long delays at immigration control and long waits at security before boarding a flight. Manchester Airport was forced to apologise after huge security queues caused passengers to miss flights.

While massive queues stretched for hundreds of yards at Heathrow for passengers waiting at immigration control after disembarking flights. The delays have been blamed on a lack of suitably-trained staff to cope with the upsurge in international travel following the end of travel restrictions in the UK.

Other airports have also been criticised by passengers forced to stand around amid lengthy check-in queues or delays in collecting baggage. Here's a round-up from some of the UK's main airports.

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