Hectic weekend at Manchester Airport amid reports of crying kids, huge queues, empty vending machines, closed restaurants and passengers stuck on planes for hours

Crying children, massive queues, empty vending machines, closed restaurants and passengers stuck on planes for hours. It's been a hectic weekend at Manchester Airport.

The airport saw huge half term queues again on Sunday (May 29), with trailing bag drop queues reported for TUI flights, as well as various delays to other flights, leaving families waiting at the gates for hours longer than planned. It comes after others told of how they were forced to sleep on the floor overnight earlier this week and even abandon their suitcases and go home after waiting hours for them at baggage reclaim on Saturday.

Manchester Airport has said there are no issues with security, and it appears a large number of TUI flights were being affected by delays and long queues.

On Sunday, the scores of disgruntled passengers contacted the Manchester Evening News. One told of how she and fellow travellers had to wait in their seats on the runway for up to four hours after their flights were delayed. People said they witness devastated families being sent away with children crying. Some even saw their flights delayed overnight.

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Videos shared to social media on Sunday night (May 29) showed baggage drop queues trailing out of the doors and into the car drop off area. Passengers told of how they had waited in the airport for over six hours with no updates on delayed flights.

TUI and EasyJet have hit the headlines in recent days. TUI passengers were left outraged after they received a text from the holiday giant that their trips were cancelled on Sunday. EasyJet announced it would be cancelling 200 flights over the next 10