Tui cancels number of flights from Manchester Airport today

Tui has been forced to cancel several flights from Manchester Airport today, July 21, as it continues to deal with the knock-on effects of the global IT outage which occurred on Friday. Thousands of flights were cancelled across the globe while many more were delayed as airports were forced to do check-in and boarding manually.

According to Aviation data analysts Cirium, a total of 6,855 flights were cancelled across the world on Friday, equating to 6.2 per cent of all scheduled flights. In the UK, 207 flights were cancelled departing from the country - 6.7 per cent of all scheduled flights, with a further 201 inbound arrivals cancelled.

Images showed passengers queueing through the car park at Manchester Airport’s terminal three on Friday. Although systems were back up and running later that day, it has continued to have an impact on flight schedules.

READ MORE: Every delayed and cancelled flight from Manchester Airport on Sunday, July 21

The disruption coincided with the busiest weekend of travel of the year so far with many schools breaking up on Friday. Thousands of families were jetting off abroad as the summer holidays kicked off.

Today Tui has announced that it has had to cancel several flights from Manchester Airport as it continues to feel the effects of the outage. It said: “We are sorry to inform passengers that we have made the difficult decision to cancel the below flights.”

Additionally, Tui has cancelled the TOM1730 flight from Belfast to Lanzarote, and the TOM6742 flight from Bournemouth to Menorca.

In a statement on its website, Tui said: “Due to the global IT issue at airports and airlines around the world on Friday, TUI’s overall service this weekend was heavily impacted and we would like to