Significant power cut leaves hundreds of passengers stuck at Manchester Airport

Flights from Manchester Airport's two main terminals were grounded after a "major power cut" led to huge delays for passengers.

Holidaymaker Lindsay Mitchell was hopeful she and her family would be able to fly to Turkey for a trip that had been planned for a year.

She told Sky News: "You have got to make the best of a bad situation. It's not the airline's fault, it's not Manchester Airport's fault, it's no one's fault, it's just one of those freaky things that happen in everyday life."

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[JelMain]

This amounts to a fundamental breach of contract, which under any other circumstances would give FULL compensation of ALL losses. The "Just one of these things" stoic approach lets the airport off the hook for not having any backup system.

[PawsThought]

Sat at home, feet up sipping wine, went outside and got some sun. Everything is gravy ( or Gavi )

Why bother with the stress

[SparkyStew]

any commercial building worth its salt has redundancy. with duel supply ATS and Battery Backup. This is supposed to maintain power in an outage which prevents critical systems from turning off

[VPPAF]

when are people going to stop excepting being treated like sheep

[RandomVideosFirst]

WORSE NIGHTMARE, WOULD NEVER HAPPEN AT HEATHROW

[richardteale]

I’m so glad that I no longer wish to travel the world…….or anywhere for that matter.

[xinma]

Get the money back. Don’t give the airline walk away

[Drunkenmeows]

decaying Britain. Business as usual. 👍

[jamesparker]

They are doing on purpose. And it's going to get worse. Much worse.

[innaminute]

That's a third world country with a lot of make up😅😅😅

[graphdatascientist]

as if the airport is not a ghetto already