Are you stuck at the airport?Holidaymakers have spoken of the chaos they endured at Manchester Airport today after a quarter of all flights were cancelled due to a major power cut.
The power cut lasted just a few minutes at 1.30am, knocking out security systems including baggage loading, boarding pass screening and passport controls. Passengers queue outside Terminal 1 after an overnight power cut led to disruptions and cancellations at Manchester Airport'When we got to the gate, we spotted the captain of the plane. He didn't know about the chaos inside the airport and was wondering why the baggage hadn't been loaded.
Paul and Jane Spencer's flight was cancelled just before take off and they were forced to find alternative flights from Leeds-Bradford airport todayEmily Parkinson and Charlie Smith wait in the queues at Manchester Airport Mrs Holt, 45, said: 'We were watching our flight on Flight Radar and it just kept circling above Manchester Airport before it was diverted to Birmingham.'We've been told to stay at a hotel in Manchester and hopefully we can get a flight early tomorrow morning.'The airport's own power supply packed up at about 1.30am that was effectively like 'ripping the plug out of your computer without shutting it down properly', he said.
Some passengers who did manage to board planes earlier face an anxious wait to be reunited with their belongings as the airport warned luggage lined up and piled in the terminals may not even have been flown out on the same plane as them. Explaining the impact the power spike had on its systems and the dire situation the airport finds itself in with planes unable to land on a jammed airfield.
EasyJet, which operates flights from terminal one, said there were 'very long queues' for security and disruption to hold baggage processing, meaning passengers could board flights only with cabin luggage. Among those caught up in the disruption was Samuel Martin, 27, a student at the University of Sheffield, and his friend Matthew O'Brien, 27, an operations manager, whose flight to Manchester Airport from New Zealand via Singapore was diverted to Heathrow.
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