Disturbances erupted at the United Kingdom’s Manchester International Airport after a power cut impacted a significant number of flights on Sunday morning prompting authorities to ask all passengers flying from terminals one and two not to travel to the airport.
Manchester airport, located in northern England, was hit by a major power cut which caused widespread disruption said Manchester Airports Group, which also operates London Stansted and the East Midlands airports, in a post on social media.
While the power has been restored, the incident has caused a significant number of flights to be cancelled and delayed, said the Manchester airport, adding that they were also unable to load the luggage onto some flights due to the disruption.
‘Passengers due to fly from terminal 3 should come to the airport as normal unless advised otherwise by their airline, but could be affected by delays’, said the group. Airport authorities also said that they are working to get passengers already at the airport on their flights as soon as possible to work through some of the backlog.
The disruption on the UK’s third-busiest airport comes at the beginning of the summer holiday season. ‘All of this is happening at a time when aviation is just getting into the peak season, very heavy bookings on flights, and if you knock out a whole load of those, then it’s going to get very messy, and you could find people waiting several days to get where they need to be,” travel expert Simon Calder told Leading Britain’s Conversation (LBC).
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