BBC News
Marc Waddington and Jonny Humphries
24 June 2024
Some passengers whose travel plans were thrown into chaos by a power cut at Manchester Airport face further delays as airlines rearrange grounded flights.
Airport bosses said all its system were "running as normal" again, but urged passengers to check the status of their flights before travelling.
The airport said it said it had deployed extra staff to help process the backlog, and said passengers should generally arrive two hours before their flights for short-haul and three hours for long-haul.
From the early hours of Sunday, outbound flights were grounded and scheduled arrivals were diverted to other UK airports.
By lunchtime, 66 outbound flights (25% of all departures) and 50 inbound journeys (18% of all arrivals) had been cancelled, according to aviation analytics company Cirium.
At about 19:30 BST, airport bosses said flights had resumed and vowed to hold an investigation into what happened.
The disruption was caused by a "fault" with a cable at the airport, which sent a surge of power across the electrical network, he said.
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