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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
John Scheerhout

"That's how ridiculous it is": Even more chaos, stress and delays at Manchester Airport as frustrated arriving passengers wait so long they ABANDON their bags

A holidaymaker has slammed Manchester Airport after waiting more than TWO HOURS to collect her bags. Alison Unwin, 60, also saw scores of uncollected bags - from flights which landed the day before - strewn around the reclaim hall in Terminal 3, apparently abandoned by their owners who decided they had waited long enough.

It comes after the M.E.N. reported huge security queues and hours of flight delays and baggage handlers who are ‘under more stress than ever’. After a sunshine break in Tenerife, Alison, her husband Paul, 62, and their 25-year-old son Ben landed at Manchester Airport at 5.16pm on Saturday following a Ryanair flight.

Their bags didn't come through until 7.30pm. Having booked a taxi, Paul decided to take the cab back to the family home in Macclefield rather than incur further charges and then returned in his own car to pick up his wife, son and the bags.

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