Holiday delays for stranded passengers

QUEUES, cancellations and delays dogged travellers at Britain’s airports for the second day yesterday, with passengers’ dream holidays turning to nightmares.

But airlines were able to run far more services than on the previous day as airports and passengers learned to cope with the demands of the new anti-terror regime.

British Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander said the aim was to match the scale of security needed to cope with the latest threat to the needs of busy airports.