Flights diverted to Liverpool Airport due to snow

A runway at Manchester Airport was closed again yesterday due to a flurry of snow and around 1,000 passengers were diverted to the travel hub at Liverpool.

Planes arriving from Heathrow Airport, Edinburgh Airport, Southampton Airport and destinations such as Helsinki, Paris, Fuerteventura and Zurich were forced to land at Liverpool Airport instead of Manchester.

It took workers at the travel hub approximately an hour and a half to clear the snow from the runway before it could be reopened.

"In Liverpool we had some snow, but nothing like what they had over in Manchester, so we've not been affected by it at all, we've just been extremely busy," said a spokesperson from Liverpool Airport.

The travel hub representative went on to add that as Liverpool Airport is not too far from Manchester, it was only a short distance for passengers to be transported back to their original destination and that it had been happy to help out.

Manchester Airport urged passengers to check with their airline before arriving at the travel hub, although it expected flights to be landing and departing as normal.

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