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Passengers have been told to stay away from Manchester Airport after a “major” power cut disrupted a significant number of flights.<\/p>\n
The warning for those travelling through Terminals 1 and 2 comes after the outage hit early hours on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n
Large queues of people have formed inside the airport, where a number of flights have been cancelled, with further disruption expected through the day, and some arriving flights diverted to other airports.<\/p>\n
Passengers flying through Terminal 3 should come to the airport as normal, but could face delays, an airport spokesman said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The flights of those already at the airport would be prioritised as efforts to “work through that backlog” continued, a spokesman said. <\/p>\n
The disruption comes at the start of the summer holiday season at the UK’s third-busiest airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
An airport source said the power cut “literally knocked everything off”.<\/p>\n
It has also affected other businesses in the surrounding area, including major logistics firms nearby.<\/p>\n