Passengers using East Midlands Airport are being advised to check with their airline after a power cut affected several airport systems early this morning.
12:15 pm
East Midlands Airport
‘We are pleased to confirm our baggage system has now been restored, and we are returning to normal operations.
‘We would like to thank our customers for their patience and our staff for their hard work helping customers and getting operations back to normal.
‘In the event customers become separated from their luggage, they should stay in contact with their airline who will reunite them at their destination.’
10:15 am
East Midlands Airport
‘We would like to apologise to customers who have been affected by a fault with our baggage system, following a brief power cut earlier this morning.
‘In the event that customers become separated from their luggage, they should stay in contact with their airline who will make arrangements for them to be reunited with their luggage at their destination.
‘Our teams are working hard to support customers in the terminal and keep them informed. We are continuing to work with engineers so that baggage operations can resume as soon as possible.
‘Anyone planning to fly from East Midlands Airport today should arrive as normal, keep any critical medication with them in hand luggage and check with their airline for their flight status.
‘The technical issue is only affecting departures – baggage systems for arrivals are operating as normal.’
7 am
East Midlands Airport:
‘Our baggage system remains out of action.
‘Engineers are continuing to work to rectify the issue and customers expecting to fly later today are advised to come to the airport as normal.
Customers with critical medication are reminded to keep it with them in their hand luggage.’
In an update issued at 6am today, Monday 31 August, the airport said its baggage system remained out of action following the brief loss of power.
System engineers are working to restore normal operations.
An East Midlands Airport spokesperson said: “A brief power cut earlier this morning affected a number of airport systems, including the baggage system which unfortunately remains out of action.
“We are continuing to work with system engineers to resume operations, and apologise for the inconvenience this is causing our customers this morning.”
Passengers scheduled to fly later today are currently advised to travel to the airport as normal and check the latest flight information directly with their airline.
The airport has not said how many passengers or flights have been affected.
