Queues at Manchester and Birmingham airports trigger extra complications for travellers this morning
Air journey complications proceed for holidaymakers, as queues have been reported stretching all the way in which outdoors the airport this morning at Birmingham.
An ITV journalist known as the state of affairs “organised chaos”, tweeting a video of a line snaking its approach out of the doorways and alongside the constructing.
Raheem Rashid stated there have been “even longer [queues] inside to get to security,” including that some passengers with earlier departure instances, himself included, had been permitted to skip to the entrance to keep away from lacking their flights.
“Made it to the gate with three minutes to go,” he stated.
Another passenger at Birmingham stated that that they had encountered the “worst airlinequeues I’ve ever seen” however praised the “best security experience” and congratulated the airport for a “very good system”.
Jonathon Wright shared a selfie with a backdrop of the queue reaching outdoors the terminal, with the caption: “Congratulations @bhx_official you now have a queue that folds three lengths of the airport! Second time this week you have failed your #SLAs”.
Elsewhere, prolonged queues have been additionally seen at Manchester airport this morning.
While some passengers stated they skilled no points, others described queues at Terminal 2 as “a shambles”, with traces stretching alongside the walkway in the direction of Terminal 1.
One passenger advised the Manchester Evening News: “No wonder the queues at Manchester are so bad, Tui website down so no checking in online which means every passenger on every flight will need to go to the desk! Absolute shambles.
“Only planned on taking a carry on bag to avoid this mess but what is the point if I am going to have to queue anyway.”
This afternoon, there have been stories of queues increase at Manchester’s arrivals space, too.
One Twitter consumer tweeted: “Manchester Airport is a shambles at the best of times, but now a huge queue at arrivals for passport scanning. Must be eight plane’s worth of people in this queue. Wtf is going on?!”
However, travellers to Gatwick reported a clean expertise, with journey editor Mark Hodson saying that there have been no queues for easyJet bagdrop, a safety wait time of simply two minutes, and no delays to his flight.
“It’s not all doom and gloom folks,” he tweeted.
Birmingham airport stated in a press release: “Many thousands of customers were airborne before 09.00 today (Fri 24 June) after going through our pre-flight security screening. Queues were long this morning but managed and moving. We thank customers for their patience and good humour.
“And, as always, big ‘thank you’ to customers who present compliant baggage at our x-ray scanners – with all liquids, gels, pastes and electrical items removed. That helps keep everyone moving. And it helps our security officers keep everyone safe.”
The Independent has approached Manchester Airports Group for remark.
