Fed-up holidaymakers were today blamed for the painfully-long queues at security at Birmingham Airport as a staffing crisis continued to cause chaos at Britain’s travel hubs.
A mother with a three-year-old travelling to Fuerteventura told MailOnline she had ‘never seen anything like it’, describing the queues as ‘horrendous’, before claiming a member of staff blamed the bedlam on flyers failing to remove liquids from their hand
Faye Shepherd (pictured), who is on placement at South Western Ambulance Service, warned about the handover delays
A trainee paramedic has revealed how she treated just one patient during a 14-and-a-half hour shift, in an example that lays bare the scale of the NHS crisis.
Faye Shepherd said she spent the entire shift on Monday caring for the patient in the back of an ambulance while waiting for a bed to free up in A&E.
The student, on placement at
Passengers complained of ‘chaos’ at Bristol Airport’s passport control last night after a nationwide eGate outage caused chaos at Heathrow, Luton and Stansted.
Photos and video on social media show crowds of travellers from ‘multiple flights’ forming ‘hour-long’ queues at Bristol amid claims there were just three staff checking passports.
‘Chaos at @BristolAirport passport control! Waiting an hour here. If you’re going to have multiple flights arriving at once why only 3 personnel checking passports? Sort yourself out,’ one passenger
Hundreds of passengers were left waiting for hours at JFK airport yesterday when three planes reportedly arrived at once on the day the US border reopened.
Furious travellers blasted officials for the ‘disgraceful’ planning as the aircraft landed from Manchester and weary customers flooded into customs.
One flyer posted footage of the chaos on social media as masked people queued in sprawling lines as they waited to be let into the country for the first time in 600 days.
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Documentary maker Louis Theroux was among thousands of passengers caught up in travel chaos at Heathrow today after an IT failure caused chaos across Britain’s major airports.
Passengers arriving into Heathrow Airport this morning faced scenes of total chaos with queues of three hours and people lining up in their thousands, with very little signs of social distancing.
The delays have also caused a backlog at baggage collection, meaning some people have had to search through groups of luggage packed
