"That's how ridiculous it is": Even more chaos, stress and delays at Manchester Airport as frustrated arriving passengers wait so long they ABANDON their bags

A holidaymaker has slammed Manchester Airport after waiting more than TWO HOURS to collect her bags. Alison Unwin, 60, also saw scores of uncollected bags - from flights which landed the day before - strewn around the reclaim hall in Terminal 3, apparently abandoned by their owners who decided they had waited long enough.

It comes after the M.E.N. reported huge security queues and hours of flight delays and baggage handlers who are ‘under more stress than ever’. After a sunshine break in Tenerife, Alison, her husband Paul, 62, and their 25-year-old son Ben landed at Manchester Airport at 5.16pm on Saturday following a Ryanair flight.

Their bags didn't come through until 7.30pm. Having booked a taxi, Paul decided to take the cab back to the family home in Macclefield rather than incur further charges and then returned in his own car to pick up his wife, son and the bags.

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Alison shared pictures and video of the baggage reclaim hall, with the images showing what appeared to be uncollected bags from previous flights. The dates on the attacked tags indicated the bags had arrived on flights on Friday, she said.

Alison, speaking from the reclaim hall as she waited for her luggage on Saturday night, told the M.E.N: "There are bags everywhere from days before. It really is inacceptable. They've got tickets on them dated yesterday. If I wanted to I could just walk off with one of those bags.

"There are abandoned pushchairs, car seats, golf clubs and suit cases strewn around from yesterday. Nobody has taken charge of them. They are just left there.

"There's a girl here with cystic fibrosis and the enzymes that she needs are in her suitcase.