Manchester Airport live: Chaos as flights cancelled at two terminals after major power cut

The disruption at Manchester Airport had seen cancellations “in the 10s”, the airport said this morning.

But as the day has progressed, there have now been more than 60 flights cancelled from the airport, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar, external, while nearly 80 have been delayed.

An airport spokesperson told the BBC earlier on Sunday that there are also inbound diversions because “planes can’t take off”, as there is limited space at the airport. This makes it harder to accept aircraft, meaning they will be sent elsewhere.

The power outage has caused major problems, especially for baggage processing within the airport which has been badly impacted.

Jet2, one of the airlines impacted by the disruption, is advising passengers that it has been unable to load bags on to aircraft as the baggage system at the airport remains inoperable and it will do its best to reunite passengers with their luggage.

Airports are very finely tuned operations, with intricate flow models that work at close to maximum efficiency – so when a problem happens, there is little bandwidth and systems back up very quickly.