Fed-up airport passengers climb through baggage carousel for luggage amid huge delays

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holidaymakers crawled through an airport baggage carousel curtain to hunt down their suitcases themselves. As some travellers waited around for up to three and a half hours at Manchester Airport, others took it upon themselves to speed the process up on Monday (May 30), MEN reports.

A woman from Oldham said she flew with Ryanair into the airport's Terminal 3 from Porto, Portugal when chaotic scenes in baggage reclaim broke out until armed police arrived.Photos of massive queues shave been shared on social media this week as the airport struggles to cope with the number of Brits looking to make the most of a long bank holiday.Baggage handler Swissport issued an apology and said current peak periods at airports were "exacerbating resource challenges across the recovering aviation industry".The holidaymaker who filmed the carousel scenes said: "Passengers got annoyed because they could not get any answers.

People were climbing and crawling through the curtain on the carousel belt trying to find their own luggage. "The bags were there, but there was no one to put them onto the carousel."I do not think that anyone got their bags, but I don't know, and the police came armed.

They were closing shutters and walking around making the point."People were just trying to get their own bags back. The carousel belts were not moving and no one was there to help us."Another holidaymaker said: "At first, when we landed, we had to wait for the steps to get off the flight because there was no people around to do that apparently.