Shuttle service back in air
Rashid Razaq
FLIGHTS from Manchester Airport to Heathrow resumed today after the strike caused chaos for thousands of north west passengers.
A flight from Heathrow carrying around 140 passengers arrived Manchester late last night, the first in-bound flight since the strike began.
Flights from Manchester to the London airport began running this morning.
A BA spokesman said: "We are working very hard to get a schedule back up and running, however there are 100 aircraft and 1,000 crew displaced around the world.
"We still advise all passengers to phone ahead to check the status of their flight."
Shuttle services between the airports were cancelled during the strike with many holidaymakers forced to find alternative transport to make connecting overseas flights.
Coaches
Around 700 people were queuing yesterday at Terminal 3 trying to get back to London with no indication of when flights would resume.
Manchester Airport laid on special coaches and BA set up a food and drinks stall.
Hundreds of passengers stranded at Manchester Airport for more than 24 hours because of a delay to their Excel Airways flight to Egypt will finally take off today.
Engineers had detected a technical problem on their plane which was due to take off at 11.30am yesterday.
The 279 holidaymakers were forced to spend the night in hotels at the airport while workers corrected the aircraft's engine problem.
A spokesman for the airline said the delayed flight was taking off at 3.15pm. She said: "We are sorry to all our passengers for this inconvenience. We certainly never want to delay passengers, but we would never knowingly carry anyone on an aircraft with an engine defect."
Toby Cook, 22, from Bath, who is travelling to Sharm El Sheikh for a seven-day holiday, said: "It was just so frustrating."
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