Manchester Airport passengers collapse and 'kids forced to urinate in plastic bags' amid FIVE HOUR queues

A man has described the 'mayhem' he experienced when flying from Manchester Airport as children were 'forced to urinate in plastic bags' in huge security queues and some passengers collapsed.

Jack Makin, 32, and his wife Laura Story-Makin, 32, arrived at the airport - which has been plagued by problems due to staff shortages in recent weeks - three and a half hours before their flight to Malta was due to take off. But Jack said it took them five 'intense' hours to get from check-in to the boarding gate.

He said he saw one child be sick 'from dehydration and exhaustion' in the 'horrendous' security queues and that he had the 'worst experience' he's ever had at an airport. Manchester Airport apologised to any passengers who had an 'unsatisfactory' experience on April 1 - the day of the flight.

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Jack, a PSCO from Winsford in Cheshire, said he arrived at the airport at around 4.30pm with paramedic wife Laura. The pair booked fast-track security passes and hoped to enjoy some food and drink before jetting off on the trip to celebrate their five-year anniversary, but said they wish they 'hadn't bothered'.

"We were flying out of Terminal 3 but had to go through Terminal 1 to their security, and then across the Terminal 3 to fly as Terminal 3 didn't have the staff to open security there", Jack said. "So we had two terminals worth of people going through one security area. It was mayhem. There was about five staff manning the whole thing and handing out trays for luggage. A family in front of us had a child who started being sick due to dehydration and heat exhaustion.

"Kids were having to pee in the