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Manchester Airport chaos continues as passengers arrive at destinations - to find no bags had been put on their flights
25.05.2023 - 15:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Passengers caught up in the chaos at Manchester Airport yesterday have told how they made it onto their flights just in time - but their bags didn't.
An hour-long power outage at an electricity substation near the airport hit Terminal 3 at around 8am yesterday, causing huge queues at check-in which snaked outside the terminal building.
It caused anger as many passengers missed their flights. Today it emerged that some passengers who managed to get through the queues in time to get on their flights arrived at their destinations only to discover checked-in luggage had not made it with them.
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One couple from Northenden say they may have to book an early flight home because of missing medication while a teacher from Marple admits she may have to attend a family wedding in her jeans and t-shirt.
Carlos Nunns, 52, a taxi driver from Kendal in Cumbria, managed to get on his Ryanair flight to Rhodes with his wife and two children only to learn their suitcase, and all but three of the suitcases of their fellow passengers, hadn't made the flight.
In his suitcase is medication for his daughter's eczema condition, said Carlos.
Speaking from the Greek island, Carlos told the M.E.N: "We get to the airport at 10.30am and there were various queues at check-in to drop our hold bag off, at security and then we had to run to the gate. It took three hours.
"People were panicking. Some people were told 'no, your gate has closed'. Looking at some people you could have wept for them. They had kids with them and that was it, their flight had gone and their holidays were over.
"There wasn't any communication. We were constantly having to go the airport's resillience team to
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