The chaos at British airports continues with thousands of travelers struggling to leave or return from their holidays, with TUI flights being canceled and huge queues forming at Bristol and Manchester airports this morning.
According to the Daily Mail, the people’s travel plans, in view of the celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, have become being upset after a very difficult week in the country’s aviation, due to the huge crisis caused by staff shortages.
Families returning from vacation complain of “three-hour delays” and large “piles” of “abandoned luggage” at Manchester airport.
According to the British newspaper, a pilot had to call the police to help hundreds of passengers disembark from a plane that had been “abandoned” for about three hours due to lack of staff.
The incident happened on Monday afternoon on a TUI flight departing from Manchester airport and heading to Tenerife.
The boarding of the passengers on the plane had already been significantly delayed, since the plane would depart at 17.50 and the boarding was completed at 19.00.
The ground crew, however, took so long to load the luggage that the flight was eventually canceled.
As if what the passengers had already gone through was not enough, they spent the next three hours in the stalled and hot plane waiting for someone to come and help them disembark.
It was then that the pilot decided to take action, according to the Daily Mail, and called the police to address the unacceptable situation that had brought the travelers to their limits.
