Mum left in Benidorm with £25 and 'only the clothes on her back' after suitcase lost at Manchester Airport

A holidaymaker was left in Benidorm with only the clothes on her back and £25 in cash after her suitcase was lost at Manchester Airport.

Zena Williams boarded an EasyJet flight to Alicante on Friday (May 27) and witnessed the widely-documented chaos at the airport. The 49-year-old said she had heard the nightmare tales, but little did she know that she would become caught up in the problems when she arrived in Spain and her suitcase was nowhere to be seen.

As she tried to find her suitcase with the help of Spanish airport staff, Zena who was travelling with her daughter Charlotte, then missed her transfer into Benidorm from the airport, the Liverpool ECHO reports. She eventually discovered that the suitcase, which contaned both her belongings and items her daughter needed for a dance group event she was taking part in, was still at Manchester Airport.

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She was then told by staff that the suitcase would be sent on the next possible flight, but two days later there was still no sign. The mum-of-one said: "The flight was due to take off at 7pm so it was an early evening flight, but check in was absolutely atrocious.

"It was self check in but it just wasn't registering any suitcases and even one of the members of staff just said "good luck because it's chaos here". We got through security side but the staff just didn't have a clue what they were doing. It was like they'd just been brought in off the street.

"When we got into Alicante I had no suitcase. Alicante airport managed to find out that it'd been left in Manchester and Manchester said they would put it on the next flight out to Alicante. They said that it'd