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Passengers caught for FOUR hours as aircraft breaks down at Manchester airport amid baggage delays 

Passengers are caught on grounded flights for FOUR hours as aircraft breaks down at Manchester airport as others face baggage delays

  • A Cathay Pacific flight suffered a malfunction on touchdown on Thursday afternoon
  • Clients on different planes for takeoff ultimately had their flights cancelled
  • Passengers complained of contemporary delays on the airport on Friday morning
  • Footage present lengthy queues for bags drop off amid freezing temperatures 

Passengers had been stranded on planes for as much as 4 hours yesterday at Manchester airport as baggage delays this morning go away holidaymakers caught in lengthy queues, with some dubbing the airport ‘garbage’.

Clients on board Cathay Pacific, TUI and Brussels flights had been sat on the tarmac for hours earlier than their flights had been cancelled and so they disembarked.

The delay is believed to have been attributable to a Cathay Pacific aircraft which suffered a malfunction whereas touchdown, supposedly as a result of a touchdown gear fault, stories on social media counsel. The airport has not confirmed the reason for the malfunction.

It got here as passengers complained of additional delays this morning as a result of lengthy queues to deposit baggage earlier than their flights.

Passengers are facing fresh delays at Manchester airport on Friday morning with long queues to drop off baggage

Passengers are dealing with contemporary delays at Manchester airport on Friday morning with lengthy queues to drop off baggage

Customers have labelled the airport 'chaos' and 'rubbish' on social media

Clients have labelled the airport ‘chaos’ and ‘garbage’ on social media

On Thursday the Cathay Pacific blocked a Brussels airways flight to Brussels and a TUI flight to Cape Verde, which had been caught on the tarmac for as much as 4 hours, Manchester Night Information stories.

A spokesperson for Manchester Airport mentioned: ‘We’re conscious of a technical fault affecting a Cathay Pacific plane this afternoon, which has additionally resulted in two different departing plane being unable to entry the runway, inflicting the cancellation of those flights.

‘We remorse the inconvenience this has brought about to affected passengers and are working carefully with the airways concerned to supply help to passengers and assist with onward journey preparations.”

The defective plane was faraway from the taxiway by yesterday night, however passengers are dealing with contemporary journey woes this morning contained in the airport

The Cathay Pacific flight became stuck on the taxiway after a fault during landing

The Cathay Pacific flight grew to become caught on the taxiway after a fault throughout touchdown

As the large Christmas getaway begins, clients have taken to social media to complain of lengthy delays to baggage drop-off, in addition to ready for a number of hours on the taxiway for planes to be de-iced. 

The airport is dealing with one other day of freezing temperatures because the mercury remained at -3C by 10am on Friday. 

Lengthy queues had been pictured on the airport at baggage desks on Friday morning as annoyed passengers mentioned just some of the obtainable lanes had been working. 

One buyer wrote on Twitter: ‘What an utter mess @manairport T2 is. Model new however clearly managed by the identical morons as earlier than because the organisation is horrific. 

‘Employees confused as to why they will’t open lanes and stood doing nothing as a substitute.’

Different passengers complained of being caught in queues for lengthy durations of time with very younger youngsters, claiming they’ve had ‘no assist’.

One other added: ‘Caught at @manairport for two hours now. Ought to have departed at 7.15am and virtually 9.15am and nonetheless no signal of takeoff. 

‘Was ready for the aircraft to be defrosted which was performed an hour in the past however now ready for take off help.’ 

Whereas others described the airport as a ‘mess’, in ‘chaos’, and the ‘worst airport I’ve ever flown from’, one Twitter consumer named Andrew merely mentioned: ‘Manchester airport is garbage.’

Manchester Airport has been contacted for remark. 

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