Mayhem has unfolded at Birmingham and Manchester airports, with passengers stuck waiting hours for flights.
Huge delays are being endured at the two major airports as Brits looking to escape the gloomy early spring weather have instead ended up missing their flights.
There are also very long waits at the Eurotunnel due to a broken down train.
The flareup today comes after days of chaos at both Birmingham and Manchester Airport.
The situation at Manchester has been blamed on issues with security, with huge, hours long lines a daily feature of the North Western travel hub for the past month.
In Birmingham the mayhem is linked to the cancellation of dozens of easyJet flights due to high numbers of staff being off sick with Covid-19.
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Those already at BHX are warning others to arrive early or face missing flights, Birmingham Mail reported.
Some passengers, including Allie Mann, complained of being stuck on planes for hours without any sign take-off was near.
She wrote on Twitter at 11.37am on Monday: "Been sat on a plane at Birmingham Airport for over three hours due to there being no staff.
"Absolutely appalling."
Rebecca Young, taking pictures of the queues, wrote on Twitter: "Anyone travelling from Birmingham Airport today, give yourself plenty of time! Queues are absolutely ridiculous."
Further north in Manchester John Dallinger said getting through the airport had been a "complete nightmare", Manchester Evening News reported.
He tweeted this morning: "@manairport Arrived at the airport at 6.15am for a 9.20am flight, 3 hours of a complete nightmare. Never will I or everyone else I spoke to use Man airport again. Awful experience!!!"
John was not alone in his condemnation.
Gareth Melling tweeted: "@manairport you have taken the fun out of families going on holiday, absolute shambles just to get through check-in and security."
Graham also said on Twitter: "@manairport another day another shambles at T1. The worst airport in Europe."
Photos began circulating this weekend of large mounds of luggage trays stacked up at the security gate.
An apology was issued on the Manchester Airport official Twitter account this morning.
It said: "As we continue to recover from the pandemic and passenger numbers grow, security queues may be longer than usual at times.
"If you're due to travel in the next few weeks, please arrive at the earliest time your airline allows. We apologise to our customers for the disruption."
Manchester Airport's managing director Karen Smart said that getting back to full strength would 'take time' and over the next few weeks it may take 'longer than it should' to get through the airport.
"The extensive security checks and training for new security officers mean we've not been able to keep pace with the rapid growth in demand - but we are interviewing hundreds of candidates every week and new colleagues are coming into the operation every day," she added.
Eurostar services, as well as freight and passenger Eurotunnel services, can expect to be waiting for approximately three hours, but passengers – many likely to be holidaymakers on Easter breaks – are still being asked to check-in as planned.
A spokesman said: "As a result of a technical issue with a freight shuttle overnight, Eurotunnel is currently operating a reduced service.
"We apologise to customers who may experience some delays during this incident and would like to assure everyone that we are working as fast as possible to remove the train from the tunnel and to restore normal service.
"We expect to have full services running again later in the day."
There are also problems for ferry passengers today, with delays of up to one and a half hours on DFDS Seaways and Irish Ferries between Dover and Calais due to high demand.
Budget airline easyJet cancelled 62 flights scheduled for Monday, after axing at least 222 flights across Saturday and Sunday.
Easyjet has yet to confirm all the affected flights, but holidaymakers can check the status of their trip via the flight tracker.
Input your flight number or the departure airport and destination to find out if your trip will be going ahead.
