The captain was seen on the tarmac at Edinburgh heaving luggage on to a flight with Swiss carrier Edelweiss.
A co-pilot named only as Simon who did the same was described as “heroic” and a “legend” by people on a Tui flight to Crete from Manchester that had been delayed for 32 hours.
Their efforts came as Stansted, one of Britain’s busiest airports, was compared to a “shootout” scene as people slept on floors at 3 am. And hundreds of suitcases piled up in Heathrow’s Terminal 2 following a weekend carousel malfunction, which could take two days to clear.
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