Arrivals at the west London airport say they have been forced to wait for more than 120 minutes on a landed plan due to issues getting an air bridge. It comes as passengers at other airports, including Gatwick, the UK’s second busiest airport, as well as Manchester and Birmingham, today face queueing chaos. In departures at Manchester, which has for days seen long queues as people jet out on their Easter holidays, passengers face hour-long waits to get through security. At Birmingham Airport, the wait is said to be around 90 minutes. Airports and airlines, which are currently suffering from a shortage of staff and a rush in demand of international travel with all UK Covid restrictions lifted, have previously warned customers to arrive at least three hours before their flight to avoid delays. Drivers meanwhile have also been warned they face a weekend of motoring misery, with clogged up motorways and busy A-roads – as well as a hefty fuel bill – on what could be one of the busiest bank holiday travel days on record. As many as 21.5million leisures journeys are set to take place across the UK’s road network this weekend, with the M25 clockwise around Surrey, the A303 near Stonehenge, and the M6 northbound from Liverpool to the Lake District among the RAC’s congestion hotspots. Meanwhile, rail passengers also face across England today, with 530 seperate engineering works taking place across the weekend. Network Rail is undertaking the massive £83million project this weekend to avoid disruption for weekday commuters.
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