As chaos continues to grip airports across the UK a Pilot gets out of the cockpit to load baggage

[hollydolly]

A diligent airline pilot has been spotted loading luggage on to a plane, as chaos continues to grip airports across the UK with a mountain of bags forming outside Heathrow and passengers

Video shows the conscientious captain down on the tarmac helping ground crew to load up to the cargo hold ahead of an Edelweiss flight from Edinburgh airport.

It comes as passengers continue to face chaos at UK airports, including at Heathrow, where hundreds of bags have been seen mounting up outside Terminal 2.

The issue started on Friday with Heathrow chiefs blaming a 'technical glitch' in the luggage system - which has sparked a huge baggage backlog.

A Heathrow spokesperson today said that there is 'ongoing disruption' from Friday. But they said no additional baggage was being delayed and the airport is doing its best to ensure all passengers flying today do take their luggage with them.

It also comes as huge queues built up at Stansted airport this morning. Some passengers described the scenes of people sleeping in the airport overnight as looking 'like a shootout'. Meanwhile, flights being delayed by more than six hours.

Stansted has been criticised by unhappy customers for days due to long queues, delays and cancellations which show no sign of stopping as the UK enters what is expected to be the 'summer of discontent.'

Labour shadow minister David Lammy was today caught up in the chaos - tweeting to his more than 780,000 followers to highlight the issue.

It comes following months of disruption at UK airports, which has been driven by a sudden demand for foreign travel following two years of Covid enforced restrictions.

Airports and airlines, many of whom let go staff during the pandemic due to a huge drop in passenger numbers, have been accused of failing to prepare by adequately re-staffing to meet the rush in demand.

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[Jules]

It’s a mess here too. The airlines need to cut back the number of flights if they don’t have the staff. If there are fewer flights, then the staff at the airport will hopefully be able to handle the crowds.

Maybe they need to charge super high fees for checked luggage. People sure pack a lot. We do carry-on only and have gone as long as a month to Europe.

I still remember a man on a hotel elevator looking back and forth at our luggage and then at his wife’s and then he asked how long we were travelling. I almost thought he’d cry when we told him.

 

[hollydolly]

It’s a mess here too. The airlines need to cut back the number of flights if they don’t have the staff. If there are fewer flights, then the staff at the airport will hopefully be able to handle the crowds.

Maybe they need to charge super high fees for checked luggage. People sure pack a lot. We do carry-on only and have gone as long as a month to Europe.

I still remember a man on a hotel elevator looking back and forth at our luggage and then at his wife’s and then he asked how long we were travelling. I almost thought he’d cry when we told him.

they already do charge high fees for hold luggage. Just the other week I was looking at flights to Spain , and packing hold luggage was going to cost more than the flight