HUNDREDS of people were forced to queue for almost two hours as the Air Festival’s Redhill Park & Ride struggled to cope on Saturday lunchtime.

Queues backed up for several hundred metres as visitors from across the UK descended on the site in a bid to beat the stress of hunting parking spaces in town.

However, scores of angry people were left with strong words for organisers for failing to ensure enough buses were running.

Jill Keast, who told the Daily Echo she’d been queuing for over an hour, said: “They’ve taken our money and dumped us in a queue.”

Meanwhile, Peter Pritchard – who had travelled to the air festival from Farnborough, Hampshire, said he’d only seen two buses make pick-ups in the hour he’d been waiting.

The queues quickly built up around lunchtime, as the air festival attractions were in full swing down at the seafront.

Aviation enthusiast Simon Williams, who had travelled to Bournemouth from West Yorkshire, said he’d been standing in line for at least an hour-and-a-half.

“I hope this doesn’t mean we will miss the show,” he said. “Someone must have had an idea of the numbers turning up.”