Transport minister urges airlines to act after Manchester Airport chaos
Holidaymakers have faced queues and long delays in recent weeks
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has urged airlines to improve their reliability, after holidaymakers at Manchester Airport faced long delays,
Travellers have faced long queues at other airports, including Birmingham and Heathrow, with many airlines blaming staff shortages.
British Airways continues to cancel around 100 daily flights due to staff shortages.
EasyJet was also forced to call off hundreds of flights before Easter.
Passengers in Manchester have faced long queues to check in recently.
Mr Shapps said airlines "underestimated how much demand there will be", and a rise in coronavirus cases "would have caused problems" with "a lot of people" off work.
He told Times Radio: "I am concerned and I'm going to be meeting with some of the airlines who have been routinely cancelling.
"I'm sure it's in their interest as is the travelling public to see them get their schedules back together, and I'm meeting with them this week to understand their plans to bring the schedules back together.
"We need to get reliability back into the system again."