The proposed suggestion of air bridges have reignited hopes of a summer holiday abroad with many Brits eager for a getaway after months in lockdown.

A record-breaking number of passengers have been flying through Manchester Airport to escape the rain-soaked weather of the North West.

A British holidaymaker who punched and cracked an aeroplane window at 35,000ft before telling horrified passengers, ‘I’m sorry for upsetting everybody, I’m not a terrorist’, walked free from a Manchester crown court today.

Manchester Airport is on target to break its all-time record number of passengers after the number of flyers increased by 5% since last September.

With the world still reeling from the MH17 disaster in Ukraine, easyJet have cancelled both their 12.15pm outbound and 11.55pm return flights to the troubled city today – with the next flights scheduled for Monday July 28

Airliner easyJet are considering at cancelling flights from Manchester Airport bound for Tel Aviv after a rocket landed near the Israeli airport.

John Alder and Liam Sweeney, 28, were on flight MH17, from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, bound for New Zealand to support their team, when it crashed in Eastern Ukraine yesterday

Direct flights to Mexico return to Manchester with flights to Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit.

The pair flew from Manchester Airport to the Caribbean

Routes will be active from March

The pair fled Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe to Manchester Airport