An Edinburgh woman has told how she was left stranded on a plane stuck on a runway for three hours as a fuelling problem brought chaos to Manchester Airport.
Almost 90 flights from the airport were cancelled after the airport experienced a "power issue" which meant aircraft could not be refuelled.
Thousands of passengers suffered lengthy delays as a result.
The airport said the issue, which first arose on Sunday, was resolved in the early hours of Monday morning but there could be further cancellations as the schedule returned to normal.
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A spokesman said there had been a total of 86 cancellations n Sunday - with 42 coming from arrivals and 44 departures.
Rachael Smith, 36, from Edinburgh, had been due to fly with easyJet to Preveza in Greece on business but her flight has just been cancelled.
She told the Manchester Evening News: "I’ve been sitting her close on three hours now, which funnily enough was the flight time.
"We’ve just been told the flight has been cancelled. We’re waiting to be taken off but there’s a backlog. So it will be a hotel and hopefully a flight tomorrow.
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"The crew have brought us water. It’s not their fault at the end of the day.
"It would have been nice to know (what the problem was) a little bit sooner."
After half-an-hour of waiting, Rachael said the captain informed passengers "we’ve got no fuel" but it took another two hours of sitting on the stationary aircraft to be told of the ‘system failure’ affecting refuelling.
“I think everyone is a bit bored and a bit angry,” said Rachael.
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