Footage shows HUGE queue for TUI bag-drop at Manchester Airport as passengers wait for hours this morning
30.05.2022 - 10:33
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A video taken at Manchester Airport this morning showed a huge queue for TUI bag-drop as families continued to getaway for the half-term break.
The footage, taken at around 3.30am, showed the line snaking out of Terminal 2 and stretching down the full length of the sky tunnel. One passenger told the Manchester Evening News that he spent two hours in the queue before checking in his luggage.
He said the queue 'was getting bigger' throughout the morning. Another passenger said on Twitter that the TUI queue was around three hours long.
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This follows a chaotic weekend at the airport with reports of passengers facing huge queues, getting stuck on planes for hours and being met with baggage issues. On both Saturday and Sunday, TUI bag-drop was reported to be extremely busy with the line stretching out of the terminal.
On Saturday, Jo Darbyshire told the M.E.N she 'expected the TUI queue to be bad' but what she faced was 'worse'. "The queue is almost the entire length of the linkway from the station and the Radisson to the T2 building", she said.
"We expected the queues to be bad and maybe about an hour but it’s worse than that. We’re just hoping security won’t be as long too. We had booked the executive lounge but don’t think we are going to get any time in there at all now. It’s taken us over an hour to get to the entrance of T2, where there is a massive queue for the bag drop.”
Jo said it took them an hour and a half to get through the bag drop queue, before heading to security. "You can understand why people are arriving so early when it’s like this," she added. "It’s not the best way to start a
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