Couple's UK airport hell as passengers collapse and 'wee in plastic bags' amid five-hour queues
dailystar.co.ukMEN.Jack, a postman and photographer and his paramedic wife Laura, from Winsford in Cheshire, were jetting off on the trip to celebrate their five-year anniversary, but wish they "hadn't bothered".Due to staffing shortages, all Terminal 3 and 1 passengers had to go through the same security.Jack said: "So we had two terminals worth of people going through one security area.
It was mayhem. There was about five staff manning the whole thing and handing out trays for luggage.“A family in front of us had a child who started being sick due to dehydration and heat exhaustion.
Kids were having to pee in the plastic bags that you'd usually put liquids in. It was horrific."Despite arriving at 4.30pm, the couple were still queuing to get their bags through security at 8.15pm, when their flight was due to take off at 8.05pm.
Jack asked the airport staff if their flight had left but no one could answer him.Jack said they were "tired and hydrated" after this "hellish ordeal" and "could have cried" when they got to the boarding gate and saw the Ryanair flight parked up on the tarmac.The flight took off at around 11.15pm but two and a half hours into the flight, a woman collapsed through the toilet door.
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