Chaos at Manchester Airport after 'two-hour' power cut: Dozens of flights cancelled or delayed, planes diverted, baggage at risk of becoming lost and passengers stuck in huge queues after 'major' outage sparks hell

Manchester Airport is successful 'utter chaos' contiguous arsenic a large powerfulness chopped cancelled dozens of flights and diverted planes with passengers stuck successful packed terminals.

Huge queues formed successful Terminals 1 and 2 astatine Britain's 3rd busiest airdrome pursuing the 'two hour' outage arsenic passengers grumbled astir a 'total deficiency of announcements' astir their flights.

Hundreds of bags lined up and piled successful the terminals whitethorn not adjacent been flown retired connected the aforesaid level arsenic their owners, leaving holidaymakers facing an anxious hold to beryllium reunited with their belongings. 

While radical expecting to alert successful to Manchester could find retired they volition onshore miles distant elsewhere arsenic a fig of flights are being diverted to different airports. 

Holidaymakers departing from Terminals 1 and 2 person been told not to question to the airdrome 'until further notice' and to interaction their airlines. 

Terminal 3 could besides look delays but radical should travel to the airdrome arsenic accustomed unless their hose says otherwise, the airdrome said. 

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One household was adjacent the extremity of a 13 hr and 45 infinitesimal formation from Singapore erstwhile its Singapore Airlines level was diverted to Heathrow.

While 3 friends who had tickets to spot Olivia Rodrigo successful Lisbon for her past European amusement are distraught aft their formation was cancelled.     

One mother, who did not privation to beryllium named, told MailOnline she has been stuck connected the runway astatine Heathrow for much than an hr aft her formation was diverted astatine the past minute. 

'Heathrow unit accidental they're struggling to get immoderate benignant of accusation from Manchester airdrome unit truthful nary thought what's happening,' she said. 

'They besides said they were lone told to divert the formation arsenic they started to descend for landing astatine Manchester. 

'The level unit are trying their champion but they person nary thought what's going connected either. I person immoderate precise fed up kids aft a agelong travel from Sydney.'

Luggage has been chucked connected 'any carousel' astatine Manchester airdrome with prams discarded connected the floor, 1 idiosyncratic claimed who has posted footage which showed radical lasting successful adjacent acheronian arsenic an alarm sounded. 

Several abbreviated powerfulness cuts happened astatine astir 1.30am and, though the airport's back-up generators kicked successful rapidly 'within a abbreviated abstraction of time,' the chopped knocked retired the computers operating the site's information systems, including those astatine passport control, boarding walk readers and container processing which instrumentality clip to re-boot. 

This meant that unit were incapable to process passengers arriving for aboriginal greeting flights causing a 'giant bottleneck', an airdrome spokesperson said. 

Engineers person since fixed the responsibility but the nonstop origin is unknown. 

'The airdrome runs connected its ain electrical proviso truthful nary of the wider country was affected,' helium said.

'The responsibility has been fixed and checked truthful we are assured it won't hap again but we bash not cognize precisely what caused it.

'What happened astir 1.30am was the powerfulness cut, past the backmost up kicked in, the powerfulness was restored, but past went disconnected again, each wrong a abbreviated abstraction of time.

'It was efficaciously what happens erstwhile you rip the plug retired of the backmost of your machine without shutting it down properly, but connected a overmuch bigger scale, and erstwhile it is affecting important infrastructure astir the information of aviation the hold successful those systems getting backmost up and moving is what caused the problem.'

He said unit were moving hard to get those passengers scheduled to instrumentality disconnected connected aboriginal greeting flights into the aerial and retired of the airport, but admitted 'dozens' of flights successful and retired of Terminals One and Two contiguous would beryllium cancelled until the backlog was cleared.

So acold much than 40 flights person been scrapped but much are expected.

The airdrome said it is moving to get those passengers already astatine the airdrome 'onto flights arsenic soon arsenic possible', though their bags whitethorn not beryllium loaded onto the aforesaid plane. 

'We volition enactment with airlines to marque definite passengers are reunited with immoderate baggage that is not connected their formation arsenic soon arsenic possible,' the airdrome said. 

Fern, who did not privation america to people her surname, was stuck astatine the airdrome for six hours aft her level from Hurghada successful Egypt landed connected the tarmac astatine astir 2.50am.

She told MailOnline she was 'herded similar cattle done agelong corridors until alas, a melodramatic halt to each question and a 1 hr and 45 infinitesimal hold successful corridors with nary communication'. 

'Frustrations continued erstwhile we were past looped backmost to the tarmac to committee buses to T1,' she said.

'It was terribly dilatory question connected the passport power - respective machines going down and again, zero staff-  had determination been a zombie apocalypse whilst we flew the skies?

'Relief washed implicit america erstwhile we entered the baggage assertion area. This was to beryllium abbreviated lived. Now, I'm going to chopped a precise agelong communicative short, but I near baggage assertion astatine 8:45am. A staggering six hours aft landing with nary connection from immoderate hose unit and lone Jet2 reps disposable who, whilst precise helpful, could lone supply truthful overmuch enactment to those travelling with different airlines similar myself. 

'Absolutely shocking scenes, the trauma is definite to past a lifetime!'

In a connection released astatine 6.30am today, Manchester Airport said: 'Manchester Airport was affected by a large powerfulness chopped successful the country earlier this morning.

'This has caused wide disruption and a important fig of flights, peculiarly from Terminals 1 and 2, are expected to beryllium delayed oregon cancelled... we apologise for immoderate inconvenience and purpose to reconstruct mean work arsenic soon arsenic possible.'

The airlines that run from Terminal 1 see easyJet, Aer Lingus, Emirates, and Etihad Airways. 

The likes of Air France, Jet 2, KLM, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Tui, and Virgin Atlantic alert retired of Terminal 2.     

Travel adept Simon Calder told LBC the systems astatine the airdrome are successful 'extreme disarray'. 

'The immense bulk of passengers volition beryllium utilizing terminals 1 and 2 [and] determination are crowds of galore thousands of radical there, they person been determination since the aboriginal hours,' helium said. 

'No flights are leaving and the latest accusation I person is that the airdrome is going to instruct the airlines to cancel a full swathe of flights for respective hours this morning, which volition mean radical who are connected their mode to the airdrome volition abruptly find they volition get a connection saying your formation isn't going successful a bid to retrieve the cognition aboriginal today. 

'On apical of the tens of thousands of radical who volition beryllium affected by hundreds of cancellations you've got an adjacent of other fig of radical waiting to alert backmost who are besides going to beryllium stranded.

'All of this is happening astatine a clip erstwhile aviation is conscionable getting into a highest season.' 

He warned the concern could get 'very messy' and radical could beryllium waiting 'several days' to get to wherever they needed to be.   

Shohaib Siddique posted footage of hundreds of radical waiting to get wrong the terminal arsenic helium wrote connected x/ Twitter: 'Chaos astatine Manchester airdrome aft powerfulness outage 2 hours stood extracurricular the terminal with nary thought if we are departing contiguous oregon not.' 

Emily Louise said she had been successful a queue for astir 3 hours.  She wrote: 'My gross has technically closed & passengers who checked successful already their suitcases are inactive successful the check-in area? Organised chaos & nary Communication!'

A furious Max Wilkinson branded the airdrome a 'shambles' and called connected absorption to quit. 

'Utter disgrace, the airdrome should person backmost up systems / generators for this benignant of scenario,' helium wrote connected X. 

'Expect the unexpected. In wide this airdrome is simply a shambles and needs large investment. I don't spot however a powerfulness chopped causes a toilet blockage crossed T1. Management should resign.' 

MailOnline has contacted Manchester Airport for further comment.  

Passengers astatine adjacent Birmingham Airport person besides faced question misery for weeks arsenic they hold successful queues for hours amid disorder implicit the security's liquid policy. 

On Thursday scores of holidaymakers took to societal media to stock their experience, describing two-hour queues arsenic 'appalling' and 'ridiculous', portion different traveller said the 'non-express queues are insane'.

Physical changes to the information area, which should let for caller exertion required to unbend the 100ml rule, mean passengers are present queuing connected the crushed level and, astatine engaged times, adjacent extracurricular of the airport.

The Government had announced that the 100ml regularisation would beryllium scrapped successful clip for summer, meaning holidaymakers could instrumentality larger bottles of liquids successful manus luggage for the archetypal clip successful years.

But this has present been delayed, causing chaos astatine airports crossed the UK and disorder for passengers.

New 'liquid check' stations person been rolled retired astatine the airdrome successful a bid to chopped the clip wasted astatine information by those confused by the changes to manus luggage rules.

Airport bosses person besides said they are successful the process of hiring a further 100 unit to assistance combat the lengthy queues faced by travellers.