It's a busy time for holidays and lots of people in our region will be jetting off from Manchester Airport.
26.06.2023 - 21:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple's wedding was thrown into doubt after a flight from Manchester Airport left without them.
Husband and wife to be Katie Latham and David Moore were due to fly out to Paphos in Cyprus on May 26 to tie the knot. The couple, who live in the Wirral, told the ECHO it took them an hour to check in their bags before making their way to security with their three kids.
When they arrived at their gate around 15 minutes later they were told they had left a suitcase - containing Katie's wedding dress - in security. The 36-year-old told the ECHO: "As we got to security everyone was clambering at the trays all together, rather than one family going at one time. It was so disorganised.
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"Because of the queues at the check in desks we were aware the gate was going to close in about 15 minutes so we were rushing through. We were walking towards the gate and they announced over the tannoy that someone had left a pink suitcase with a wedding dress in at security. And we realised we missed the bag as we were grabbing all of our things.
"I just panicked as soon as I heard it. They said it had failed a security breach.
"We didn't even realise that a bag hadn't come through because no one told us. They didn't announce it until 15 minutes later on the tannoy."
With the gate due to close in five minutes time, Katie's fiancé David, 40, ran back to security to collect the case, while she begged Ryanair staff to hold the plane.
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Katie said: "My daughter was hysterically crying. The rest of our family were already on the plane.
"This one [staff member] showed no
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