The major outage at Manchester Airport in the early hours of yesterday caused disruption to luggage processing, with thousands of travellers flying without their hold bags.
Have you been left without your luggage?Passengers hit by travel chaos at Britain's third-biggest airport faced an anxious wait for baggage today after a power cut forced more than 100 flights to be cancelled.
A total of 66 outbound flights and 50 inbound were axed yesterday, according to aviation analytics company Cirium. In an update issued at 9.12am this morning, Manchester Airport said: 'All our systems are running as normal today, so passengers are advised to prepare to travel as usual from Manchester Airport.
'We need to know when these cases will arrive in Crete, we have items for a wedding and some medication in the cases which is essential.' In a desperate bid to clear the 'bottleneck', airport chiefs cancelled scores of flights out of Terminals 1 and 2 and appealed to those due to jet off to stay at home.Many more departures were delayed or took off without luggage onboard, while dozens of flights into the airport – around a fifth of all arrivals – were either also cancelled or diverted to other airports.
Paul Spencer, 67, and his wife, Jane, 66, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, were due to fly to the Greek island of Kefalonia with Jet2 at 4am. 'Some we chatted to said they'd been told they'd have to get down to Gatwick to catch an early morning flight to Zante and then get a ferry on to Kefalonia from there.'
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