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Manchester airport ‘operating smoothly’ after power cut chaos

Manchester airport was operating “smoothly” on Monday, 24 hours after a power failure led to dozens of flight cancellations.

The outage hit security and baggage screening affecting a reported 90,000 passengers.

The northwest hub said at 5pm on Monday that all systems were “working as normal” with “no ongoing issues” following Sunday’s power outage.


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However, the statement said: “The airport is slightly busier than usual as airlines get passengers impacted by the disruption onto new flights. 

“This is likely to be the case over the coming days. We have extra staff in place to help our passengers.”

The airport added: “Passengers whose bags did not make it onto flights yesterday [Sunday] are advised to stay in contact with their airlines. 

“We are working with airlines, their ground handling agents and other partners to get those bags out to passengers as soon as possible. 

“Many were placed on flights last night and today and have already been reunited with their owners.”

Jet2, which suffered “significant disruption and cancellations” at the aiport on Sunday, said in a message to customers: “Please be advised that our UK-based ground operations team will work hard to ensure that we get your baggage to you, as soon as we can, as you can appreciate this may take some time and we will endeavour to be in contact with you by the end of the day on Monday.

“We understand how frustrating this situation must be and although the situation was beyond our control we will do everything we can to get all luggage to its final destination as soon as we possibly can.”

Tui issued an apology to holidaymakers who departed Manchester airport without any bags, or had to leave the airport on arrival without their luggage.

“Our team are doing everything they can to reunite passengers with their baggage and already flying bags to their intended destination,” the operator said while confirming that none of its flights were cancelled.

Three Tui flights on Sunday – to Faro, Paphos and Larnaca – were delayed by 24 hours.   

The airport advisory also said: “As always, passengers due to fly from Manchester should go online to check the status of their flight before travelling and follow their airline’s instructions on when to arrive at the airport – usually two hours in advance of a short-haul flight and three hours ahead of a long-haul flight.

“Once again, we would like to thank passengers for their patience. We would also like to thank our staff as well as our partners around the airport for their hard work.”

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