Manchester Airport Fuel Crisis for Airlines

Manchester Airport have announced that they have “learnt lessons” after running out of fuel for the first time in its history!

Around 30 flights were delayed or disrupted by this lack of fuel, which was caused by a pipeline, from the Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire that flows directly to the Airport, which had to be turned off on the early hours of Wednesday morning due to a batch of fuel which was contaminated.

With the huge influx of passengers and heightened business over the Bank Holiday period, all the reserve fuel tanks supplies at Manchester Airport  were completely depleted by around 5pm on Thursday.

Around 13 flights were delayed as they the planes did not have enough fuel to depart whereas around 17 flights had to make unscheduled stops throughout Europe to make fuelling stops.

Airport bosses have now begun talks with the airlines and fuel companies to see why this situation arose and to establish ways to prevent it occurring again.