Quarter of flights from Manchester Airport cancelled after major power cut

The power cut hit Manchester Airport in the early hours of Sunday (Dave Thompson/PA)

A quarter of all flights from Manchester Airport were cancelled after a “major power cut” which also caused huge queues and disruption to baggage processing, analysts have said.

The outage, which hit systems in the early hours of Sunday, meant by lunchtime 66 outbound flights (25% of all departures) and 50 inbound journey (18% of all arrivals) were axed, according to aviation analytics company Cirium.