Police cancelling holidays, mammoth queues and three-hour waits for baggage... so as 330,000 passengers prepare to fly through Manchester Airport this weekend, why's it still such a shambles?

A family had their holiday ruined by four cancellations in 48 hours, with police having to intervene on the third occasion. Ian McStein was due to depart to Crete from Manchester Airport at the end of May, but was instead met with a chaotic 48-hours of cancellation after cancellation.

The boss of airline TUI has offered an explanation as to why hundreds of flights have been delayed and cancelled in recent weeks causing chaos at UK aiports. Managing director Andrew Flintham apologised to customers in an email on Monday night, admitting that the firm's "ecosystem is not working as it should be".

A family with a young child had to shell out £1720 on new flight tickets to Manchester after their Easy Jet flight home from their package holiday in Egypt was cancelled leaving them waiting around for over eight hours.

A second artist has been forced to pull out of this year’s Parklife festival in Heaton Park after their flight was cancelled.

School buses for students with special needs have been suspended as operators cancel their Manchester council contracts due to rising costs. Seven routes which serve schools in the city have been not been running since the Easter holidays – and they will not resume before the summer term ends.

A mum has lost out on a £1.5k holiday to Tenerife following a two-day TUI delay nightmare at Manchester Airport. Kelly Clarke and her nine-year-old son Toby were set to fly to Costa Adeje at around 5.50pm on May 30. Despite arriving early, the pair were met with “carnage” inside the terminal, with long queues for restaurants and nowhere to sit down.

A football missed out on watching England v Germany after his flight to Munich from Manchester Airport was cancelled just two hours before it was due to take off.

A family from Bury said they experienced ‘one thing after another’ after facing a 16-hour flight delay as they tried to get home from a 12-day holiday in Turkey.

A family have described feeling 'trapped' and 'scared' after their flights were cancelled at the last minute, stranding them in Turkey, leading to costs of nearly £2,500 for new flights and hotels. It comes amid more chaos at Manchester Airport as mountains of abandoned bags are left after arrivals.

On top of facing travel chaos at several airports in the UK, British tourists are also facing long queues when they arrive at their destination. According to complaints on social media, some travellers have had to wait up to three hours to get through passport control in Spain.

Police are trying to trace a woman from Wigan who has now been missing for more than a week. Janice Cleworth, 46, was last seen on Charles Street in the area of Leigh at around 4pm on May 25.

Police have fired a warning after shocking footage emerged of two men appearing to be assaulted at a Metrolink stop in Rochdale. Footage shared with the Manchester Evening News yesterday (May 31) appeared to show a man being hurled onto the tracks at Newbold, after another man could be seen on the ground.

More than 30,000 TUI passengers due to fly from Manchester Airport over the next month will have their holiday plans crushed by the end of today. The under-fire travel operator has slashed its flight schedule to tackle staff shortages and ‘ongoing disruption’.

The police were called in to help hundreds of TUI passengers "abandoned" on the runway for three hours. Holidaymakers were left stuck on the tarmac before being escorted off the plane at Manchester Airport.

A disabled passenger was left with no choice but to call the police after a three-and-a-half hour struggle to leave a chaos-hit airport in the early hours.

Video footage showed the shocking moment police were drafted in to tell furious passengers at Manchester Airport that their TUI holiday had been cancelled.

A family have spoken of their nightmare ordeal after finding out their £4,000 holiday had been cancelled by text while waiting at the departure gate.

A disabled passenger had to resort to calling police after a three-and-a-half-hour battle to leave Manchester Airport during the early hours.