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Up to a third of border guards in Scotland and Northern Ireland could be redeployed to English airports this weekend to avoid more flight disruption.
The emergency measures have been brought in to deal with a surge of families returning from half-term holidays over the next couple of days.
Officials want to avoid the turmoil seen in departure halls last weekend.
However, travellers have been warned they could still face border queues of several hours.
And there could also be chaos in luggage collection halls, where the staff shortages plaguing airlines are at their worst.
The lack of workers causes bottlenecks in baggage halls, which could affect border waiting times.
Worker shortages have led to long delays at passport control, check-in and baggage drop-off and pick-up
Northern Irish border guards could be redeployed this weekend to try and ease English airport bottlenecks
Nearly 11,000 planes with the capacity for a total of 1.9million
