Another 180 flights cancelled from Manchester
Tui has announced more than 180 flight cancellations from Manchester airport until the end of next month as its customers caught up in the half-term travel chaos told of how their holiday plans had been ruined.
At the moment all of TUI’s Monday and Friday weekly connections to Funchal appear to be still available on their website – in fact, you can currently get a 28-day return flight for just £89 per person.
Manchester Airport, which just last month issued a candid apology over its staffing crisis, is understood to be the only hub in the country impacted by TUI’s planned raft of cancellations, cutting six flights a day, 186 flights in total, between May 31 and June 30, as they battle lengthy queues and cancelled takeoffs.
Meanwhile, after preemptively scrapping 240 flights over the weekend, easyJet’s on-the-day cancellations are continuing.
Manchester Airport said it was disappointed to see travellers’ holiday plans disrupted by the move, which it put down to staff shortages at Tui and its ground handler Swissport, which manages its check-in and baggage handling.
The Guardian quotes an even higher number, reporting that Tui has announced that it is cancelling nearly 400 flights between Manchester airport and a range of holiday destinations have been axed from now until the end of June.
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