Thousands miss their flights after queuing for hours at airports

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Travellers have been warned chaos at airports will continue 🛫 In Manchester, passengers were delayed for hours ‘waiting for a pilot’ while there were huge queues outside the terminal at Dublin Airport.

Similar disruption took place across the weekend.

Nicola Caine, 37, of Cheshire, said her family’s flight to Tenerife had been cancelled from Manchester and then again at Gatwick, leading to them being forced to sleep on an airport floor. Meanwhile, Michelle Farmer, 56, said her and daughter Madeleine’s Tui flight from Bristol to Naples was cancelled with less than an hour’s notice.

Tui said the cancellation was ‘due to a combination of factors’ and added: ‘We are doing all we can to keep customers updated.’Literally every aspect of travelling to/via Dublin is in disarray. Airport is an omnishambles, when you make it through that hellscape you encounter one of the worst capital city transport links in Europe. Taxis non-existent, three star hotels charging Ritz-Carlton rates.

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