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Manchester Airport flights delayed ‘due to hole in the runway’
- On Saturday evening, Manchester Airport suffered widespread flight delays, with travel service Inrix reporting average delays of fifty minutes for departing flights.
- While Inrix cited a 'hole in the runway,' an airport spokesperson said, 'One of our runways closed for a short period' to allow routine maintenance.
- Ryanair and EasyJet passengers experienced significant disruptions, including a service to Cork delayed by almost two hours and a flight from Paris Charles Gaulle arriving late.
- Arrivals from destinations including Cairo, Palma, Amsterdam, Belfast, Munich, Alicante, Cologne, and Copenhagen also ran behind schedule, affecting numerous passengers throughout the evening.
- Despite the Saturday evening disruption, flights scheduled to depart on Sunday morning were not showing delays at the time of the latest update.
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Manchester Airport flights delayed ‘due to hole in the runway’
The airport said one of the runways closed on Saturday to ‘allow for routine maintenance’
·London, United Kingdom
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