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<p>On 31 May TUI announced a number of flight cancelations from Manchester Airport
to their schedule for the whole of June. Disappointingly, this announcement was made
too late for a number of passengers who had already arrived at the airport for flights
scheduled to depart that day. It is the responsibility of airlines to communicate
this to passengers. All airports have a police presence, and in this instance a passenger
liaised with the police due to limited airline staff availability.</p><p> </p><p>The
Secretary of State and myself met with industry (including TUI) last week. We strongly
expressed our view that the behaviour of some airlines has been unacceptable and have
asked for assurances that realistic schedules will be in place to avoid a repeat of
the scale of disruption that was seen.</p>
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