LONDON: Heathrow Airport is “absolutely operational”, a spokesperson mentioned on Saturday (Mar 22), a day after a hearth at an influence station shut down Europe’s busiest air hub and brought about journey mayhem.
The electrical energy substation blaze closed the London airport for many of Friday earlier than some flights started to reach and take-off later within the night.
“We are able to affirm that Heathrow is open and absolutely operational as we speak,” the spokesperson mentioned on Saturday morning.
“Groups throughout the airport proceed to do all the things they’ll to assist passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport energy substation.”
About 1,350 flights have been affected by Friday’s closure, in keeping with the Flightradar24 monitoring web site.
Delays and cancellations have been anticipated on Saturday as companies resume.
“Now we have a whole bunch of further colleagues available in our terminals and we now have added flights to as we speak’s schedule to facilitate an additional 10,000 passengers travelling by way of the airport,” the spokesperson mentioned.
“Passengers travelling as we speak ought to test with their airline for the most recent data relating to their flight.”
British Airways mentioned it anticipated to function round 85 per cent of its scheduled flights on the airport all through the day.
Restrictions on in a single day flights have additionally been quickly lifted to assist ease congestion, in keeping with the UK’s transport division.
