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The family were due to fly out to Turkey for their first holiday since the pandemic started, but ended up heading home after waiting nearly 12 hours as their flight was cancelled

Kim McManus and her daughter were due to go to Turkey for her daughter's first ever holiday abroad

Families getting away for half-term are continuing to face long waits in Terminal 2

Hundreds of people had queued for four hours at security and check-in then waited another four hours for the flight

Rebounding demand and a string of last-minute flight cancellations have compounded half-term travel woes

Jason Nash had booked a trip away to Rhodes with his family to celebrate his mum's big 60th birthday, but his best laid plans were ruined when the flight was cancelled with no representatives from TUI on site to help out

Passengers at Manchester Airport have been left in "utter chaos" after being told to leave their travel bags behind to collect later, only to be told they will need to be sent home

The couple have had to put their plans on hold after Tui cancelled a number of flights this weekend.

Manchester Airport bosses have apologised for the disruption - and said that delays at check-in and baggage reclaim were the responsibility of airlines and ground handling firms, which run their own services

A number of budget airlines grounded flights while Dover saw hours-long delays

Mum Kelly Ann MacKinnon from Govan was left fuming after she claims her family endured at 43-hour nightmare when planes were "indefinitely delayed" with the whole ordeal leaving them feeling "sick, shattered and broken" when they finally got back home